Some art for the Chateaux

See www.zamekhostacov.co.cz

The landscape was inspired by a photograph in a tourist brochure. There are so many lovely old

castles scattered all over the country.

I worked in acrylics and produced some canvasses which will be framed and hung in the

hotel in the Czech Republic.

The “Africa Room” needed something well…, African? I was inspired by a watercolour I had seen of two zebras basking in the morning sun.

I painted a large still life depicting a mundane kitchen scene in the foreground

and a little something going on in the background between the cat and the critter. I incorporated a cat to represent the castle’s resident cat “Leeuwtjie” (little lion). I based the design on one point perspective to give

a 3D feel.

Lastly, the forests in the Czech Republic are full of mushrooms. Some are edible and

others very poisonous. A quartet of 12” x12” canvases can be positioned in a grouping of

pictures on a wall in a room or along a corridor.