Original artwork description:

Right before the war broke out in Ukraine, we had a very uneasy feeling here in North-eastern Europe. It was a certitude of fragility: how all the good things are easily broken and need a high level of protection, happiness and security The morning of February the 24th I woke up crying, very early. I turned on news a couple of hours later and cried even more for weeks to come. Peace, the greatest achievement of human kind, had ended in Europe just a thousand kilometers away from my home.
So I am painting angels right now. This is a flower warrior angel, armed with pink hyacinths, started earlier this year when war was just a metaphorical notion from barbaric, by-gone times.
I am painting a series of seventy-two angels, hoping to create peace, solace and hope again. As we can only meet angels on earth while they are acting through other humans, I have a growing collection of portraits: children, grown-ups, happy and sad, all kinds of angels who cross my path.
I'm using watercolor technique, as the floating, light, transparent, unearthly pigments seems to best reveal the nature of angels and hope.
The artwork is painted on 300 g/m² Arches watercolor paper and not framed.

Materials used:

Watercolor on paper

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