Fransum

The northern part of the Netherlands is an old cultural landscape. Typical to this region is the presence of mounds (local: terpen or wierden) used to protect people against the sea in the Middle Ages. Many of these mounds have little churches in Roman style. This painting is made by using gouache and a photo of the church. I combined the two and I coloured the photo of the church with water colour. Therefore the painting has got a strange combination of expressionist painting and realistic representation