Primavera is still alive

2024
80 x 120 x 4 cm
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas

Hey, you’re still alive after all! You are
the awakening, a quiet pulsing beneath
the earth. You remind me of the gentle
revolution against inner coldness.

Two beginnings

This painting has two beginnings.
The first is in March 2019. That’s when the foundation was created— inspired by the Shirley poppy, which is only available for a short time and is precisely why it feels so special. I’ve always been drawn to this contradiction in it: an almost fragile delicacy and, at the same time, a clear, upright presence. The fine hairs, the stems, the structure— something plant-like that almost tips into the animal.

Then the painting sat for a long time.
Not unfinished, more at rest. Perhaps like in hibernation.

Picking it up again in March

In March 2024, I brought it out again. It wasn’t a conscious plan, but more a feeling that something wants to continue now. March is a transitional month for me. One in which, every year, I forget anew that spring really does come back— and at the same time I urgently await it.

In this tension, the painting kept growing. The scale of the Shirley poppy, the delicacy of lily of the valley. The darkness and retreat of winter and, at the same time, the incredible power of cell division that lies dormant in every bud

Layers that remain

I worked with rich greens, with muted beiges, with layers that overlap. In between, there were words on the canvas— thoughts about spring, about new beginnings, about this quiet urge toward life. Many of them are no longer visible today. They’re painted over, but not gone. They carry the painting from within.

The reference to “Primavera” by Sandro Botticelli was there too— less as a specific visual quote, more as a feeling. That lightness of blossoms that seem to stand effortlessly in space stayed with me. And at the same time, the most reproduced artwork in the Western world. Spring repeats itself, entirely without our doing.

What remains

What interests me about this painting is less the motif than the principle:
That something can only come into being because something else was there before.
That growth isn’t linear, but happens in layers.
And that delicacy and strength can exist at the same time.

Maybe that’s exactly the core:
That life doesn’t announce itself, but is suddenly there again.

Primavera is still alive

80 x 120 cm
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
2024

2,000.00 Euro

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