First of all I want to wish you welcome to my blogsite of ¨The Imaginal World of Dorotea Haagsma¨.
Through this site I just want to write and comment about "painting", which is my biggest passion. Painting is also the best way for me to express myself; there is no need for words to be said. All my emotions and thoughts of a given moment are contained in one single image, although some time usually goes by before I finish the painting. But these weeks or months - the time I need to finish a painting depends on the painting itself - are my moments of self reflection, during which I can think about and process all the thoughts and emotions flowing through me.
Painting is therefore also a way of "self therapy", trying to let "undesired", obsolete and useless emotions go and inviting new and positive emotions to take their place. Thanks to painting I slowly get to know myself better, which - in my opinion - is an important task for every human being.
Let me finish this first article with a quote of one of my favourite writers, George Gurdjieff:
“Painting is a matter of combining colours.”
