On the first day of spring, we drove in our orange Mini Cooper to Rotterdam in the sun.
What a good start of the new season, which we were really looking forward to.
We parked our car near the park, had a coffee to go at Parqiet and walked under the river through the Maas tunnel, to the Charlois district.
The monumental Maastunnel (built in 1942) was renovated, restored and closed for cyclists and walkers, between the summer of 2017 and October 2020.
Charlois is a versatile Rotterdam district with nine neighborhoods, each with its own character.
We explored the oldest part Old Charlois and it almost felt like a village.
After returning to the park, we enjoyed a self-brought lunch with sandwiches and fruit, on a bench in the sun overlooking a bright blue field with oriental star hyacinths.
Due to lack of museum visits in this lockdown, i bought the new David Hockney art book by Taschen for Henk.
And we also framed the exhibition poster The Joy of Nature, which we bought in 2019 during the visit to the exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The poster of Hockney's painting The arrival of spring in Woldgate, fits perfectly at this time of the year. Bring on spring!
At the time, we couldn't find a suitable frame and fixed the Hockney poster on the wall with masking tape in my studio. We decided to adjust the size of the poster to the frame.
Lemon on soft pink, lemon on lilac and lemon on moroccan pink.
Size of the canvas is 80 X 60 cm, acrylic paint on cotton canvas.
If you like more information about the paintings or want to buy one of the lemons on canvas, please send me an email (info@woodwoolstool.com) or DM on instagram @woodwoolstool.