Gezicht op een huis en bomen aan een sloot before 1902

This is a landscape by Hans Kronberger. It’s an image of a house and trees by a ditch. Imagine him outside on a slightly misty day, his mind trying to make sense of the scene before him. He is responding to all that nature has to offer. The textures, the light. You can imagine what he might have been thinking as he was creating it. Perhaps the air was heavy with the scent of damp earth and foliage. It makes you wonder how he was feeling as he made it. It feels very personal. Works like this invite us to slow down and notice the beauty that surrounds us every day. They demonstrate how artists are in an ongoing conversation, sparking and inspiring one another’s creativity. And, I think, they show how painting can be a form of expression, embracing doubt.