winter landscape

This is a big painting, almost four feet tall. Inspirations were the winter colors here in the Hague, the Irish landscape to the south of Dublin, the Dutch painter Tom Schulten, and the abstract expressionist painter Nicolas de Staël (1914 –1955). Examples of Schulten and de Staël paintings are pictured below. The de Staël is titled Les Toits (the roofs), pictured second from the bottom and can be seen in the regular collection of the Pompidou musem in Paris.