I painted these trees on a used pizza box the other day.
I have a deep love for trees. Just like people, trees have an invisible yet vital part: their roots. For us, this translates to our history and our psyche. If we are not properly grounded, we fall over.

The roots are the quiet, hidden work. The rest is what we offer to the world.
Do you love trees too? What is it about them that speaks to you?

#artshare #pizzabox #expressionism #trees

Watch it on my website: https://edwardkobus.eu/portfolio/2026_pizzadoos_twee-bomen.php

Woman with Umbrella in Front of a Hat Shop (1914) by German Expressionist painter August Macke (1887-1914). He spent the summer months of 1914, like previous ones, with his family in Hilterfingen on the Thuner Lake. The shops in the streets of the Old Town of Thun and the surrounding landscape constantly reappear as motifs in the artist’s works.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/woman-with-umbrella-in-front-of-a-hat-shop-1914-august-macke-1887-1914.html

#art #ArtHistory #expressionism

Exposition

. Yes! On Sunday, April 26, I will be exhibiting my photography during the Rondje Watertoren art route in Schimmert, the Netherlands. In a church whose architectural style contains Neo-Romanesque and Gothic elements. Expressionist elements are also visible. In the church, I am going to complement these styles with my impressionistic view of my world. Taking different perspectives. An ongoing challenge to keep my photography 'alive'.

https://cpluzc.com/2026/03/22/exposition/

I paint about humanity: compassion, forgiveness, shadows and light. I am an ageing woman, and running through my work is a question about what a Western woman sees when she looks at herself. The external gaze is so easy to internalise, to begin defining oneself through it, to reshape and alter, to forget one's own inner knowing.

I paint about how decades of living layer themselves into a woman, how that is not a burden but wisdom. A line is not a flaw. It is a sign of a life lived. For me, ageing is not something to be ashamed of. It is a story that deserves to be seen.

Be well wherever you are, because Wisdom dwells in the Heart. 🥰✌️

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