Kupa river under the snow 1997

Alfred Freddy Krupa created this small watercolor painting, Kupa river under the snow, with shades of blue and white. I can imagine Freddy standing by the banks of the river, looking out at the snow-covered landscape, feeling the cold nipping at his fingers. He would have been trying to capture not just the scene, but the feeling of the place, how the silence of the snow changes everything. The paint is so thin, almost like a wash, which helps to create a sense of light and atmosphere. Those little patches of blue – they could be trees, or shadows, or just the way the light is hitting the water. It reminds me of the work of other painters like, say, Lois Dodd, who are interested in capturing the everyday beauty of the world around them. Painting is really an embodied form of expression that embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, inviting multiple interpretations. Artists are in an ongoing conversation across time, inspiring each other's creativity.