Fivelingo

Subject for this digipaint (left) and gouache (top) is the typical landscape Fivelingo or Fivelgo in the northern part of the Netherlands. It is an old cultural landscape were people in earlier times use to live on mounds (locally: wierden or terpen) to protect themselves against high tides.
First I made the left painting on the computer using Painter Classic. This digipaint formed the starting point for the gouache.
I am concerned about the future of this valuable landscape threathened by the modern economic and demographic developments. This concern is expressed in a poem.

Fivelingo

Hoog aan de horizon
in de traditie
van De Ploeg
pronken boerenhoeven
afgetekend
tegen de lucht

Verdwenen
de kerkepaden
Gebleven
genadeloos land

Voorbij de dreiging
van de zee
verdwijnt
het boerenland