Nature
WORKS OF ART
ARE
LANDSCAPES OF
THE SOUL
Ted Goodwin
The beauty
of the everyday
In primary school, I once won a prize for my herbarium. I had compiled that book with great care. For hours, I had cycled through our village looking for leaves of different trees and shrubs. At home, I put them like treasures in my little press to dry, after which I carefully pasted them and neatly wrote all the names. How proud I was when I received a beautiful bird book as a prize at the town hall!
![schildersezel](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.emilypals.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image00321-225x300.jpeg?media=1688135531)
![natuur paardebloem veld](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.emilypals.nl/wp-content/uploads/brizy/imgs/image00330-1-scaled-525x700x0x224x525x252x1665050901.jpeg?media=1688135531)
When I walk the dog through my town now, I sometimes think back to my passion for collecting herbariums back then and the pleasure I got out of it. This attentiveness to my surroundings was there from an early age, and I still have an eye for detail. I often see the beauty in small everyday things. A beautiful field with poppies, the blossom of a Japanese cherry on the corner of the street, the morning light falling so beautifully on the leaves of a tree, a vista in a landscape. I often then take a photograph to capture this. In my studio, I work out these natural treasures on canvas. This is how I try to pass on the beauty I find in nature to others.
![hockeyveld schilderij](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.emilypals.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Mens-natuur.jpeg?media=1688135531)
Human and nature, oil on canvas, 50x120cm, 2020
water
sea
lockdownflowers
oil on paper and wood, 20x16 cm, 2020
During the lockdown period of 2020, I participated in an online challenge to paint a flower from your own environment every day for 20 days. I went through my garden with my easel and enjoyed painting flowers en plein air. The works below are a selection of them.