Monday Love: Roses in Mai

A rose is a rose is a rose ...

Have a big bush of roses in my front garden - they are so beautiful! This little stillifes features some of the good things in summer - flowers, fruit, easy living ... Hope your week gets of to a lovely start!

Painting: Martina Voigt-Schmid

Friday Pretties: Small collages

"I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment!"

Marc Chagall

Some more small canvases with a mix of painting and collage, a playful approach i like at the moment. It's fun to play with colors, while the world around us is doing the same, adorning trees with fluffy pink blossoms and tender green leaves. 

While everything is getting brighter and more and more pretty around me, i can't help having this sad and burdened feeling underneath, because of the nuclear catastrophe in Japan. When i see Cherry-trees, i think of those people who like them so much,  and who have to bear terrible uncertainty as to what is happening to them. And to a certain degree, it is happening to all of us. All the more reason to be grateful and cherish life the best we can.

Have a splendid spring weekend, i'll be coming over and visit you for tea (or champagne?) anytime!

Photos and paintings: Martina Voigt-Schmid

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Pre-spring season

Two little paintings i finished last weekend - after cutting away those dry fern branches from the garden. Somehow, these brown, dry, half rotten things are still around, but the birds are singing and green things are coming out of the earth.