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Find Joy in Difficult Times

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Turning Sadness into Joy – Vincent van Gogh’s Life

He was very poor, got heartbroken several times, got betrayed by friends, had a complicated relationship with his family, was continually misunderstood and seemed to be all alone...

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Light

Find my way back to the light through light...

Walking on the Edge of the Abyss

but I don’t feel scared, really. Rather amazed, every day, that I am still standing and that the view is so stunningly beautiful....

Van Gogh’s Advice on Dealing With Suffering

Vincent van Gogh suffered a lot in his lifetime. He was very poor, didn’t have many friends and didn’t have a good relationship with his family, except from...

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Does It Have To Be So Hard?

Jesus wants us to stick with Him through the awkward learning parts so we can learn to ride like He does. He wants to take our mind off of...

Finding Beauty in Grieving

Grieving over someone who died is painful. But in this experience there are also places of much light. When you see something your loved one loved for example....

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Tell Him What You’ve Never Dared to Say Out Loud

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Ik Leef Nog Steeds – Download

This a printable poster is partly inspired by my fascination for birds, especially how they seem to enjoy windy weather a lot. It often looks to me like they are having a party on moments like that. It is also inspired by Matthew 6: 25+26: "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?"

Have A Little Party – Matthew 6 – Download

This is an original acrylic/watercolor portrait painting titled 'Still Lovely'.

Still Lovely – Original Painting

€ 220,00

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Twirling painting download

Twirling – Download

Suggested price: € 5,00

This is an art download of this sunset landscape painting titled 'Hier Ben Ik' These words are also written on the painting, translated from Dutch it means 'Here I Am'.

Hier Ben Ik (Here I Am) – Download

This is an acrylic painting of a portrait of Vincent van Gogh.

All Heart – Portrait of Vincent van Gogh – Original Painting

€ 220,00

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This is an original acrylic portrait painting on canvas titled 'In Disguise'

In Disguise – Original Painting

€ 200,00

This is an original acrylic painting titled 'Droom & Daden'. On it I pasted a few lines from a poem by Henriette Roland Holst - van der Schalk titled 'De Wens':

Droom & Daden – Original Painting

€ 350,00

This is an original acrylic painting titled 'Love Come to Me'

Love Come to Me – Original Painting

€ 350,00

This is an original painting on wood based on Sufjan Stevens song 'Carrie & Lowell, especially the phrase "Under the pear tree, shadows and light conspiring." This phrase and this album reminds me of the strange correlation between light and dark in this world.

Shadows and Light Conspiring – Sufjan Stevens’ ‘Carrie & Lowell’ – Original Art

€ 200,00

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This is a printable artwork based on the book 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte titled 'Free as a Bird'.

Free As A Bird – Inspired by Jane Eyre – Download

This is a printable poster titled 'Cycling in the Rain'

Cycling in the Rain – Download

This is a printable poster titles 'The Morning Invitation' Based on a quote from the book 'Love Does' by Bob Goff.

The Morning Invitation – Inspired by Bob Goff’s ‘Love Does’ – Download

This is an original acrylic painting on canvas titled ‘I've Got Freedom’

I’ve Got Freedom – Original Painting

€ 400,00

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This painting is inspired by the next passage out of The Profundis by Oscar Wilde: “Of course the sinner must repent. But why? Simply because otherwise he would be unable to realise what he had done. The moment of repentance is the moment of initiation. More than that: it is the means by which one alters one’s past. The Greeks thought that impossible. They often say in their Gnomic aphorisms, ‘Even the Gods cannot alter the past.’ Christ showed that the commonest sinner could do it, that it was the one thing he could do.

Alter The Past (Oscar Wilde) – Original Painting

€ 1.100,00

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This is an original acrylic painting inspired by the book 'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf. That book is so strange and wonderful to me. Many paragraphs and sentences inspired me. This painting is inspired by this one: "I think sometimes (I am not twenty yet) I am not a woman, but the light that falls on this gate, on this ground. I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn."

I Am The Seasons – Original Painting

€ 220,00

This is an original acrylic painting on paper titled 'Every Moment Should be Beautiful' This is a line from Oscar Wilde that he wrote in The Profundis.

Every Moment Should Be Beautiful – Download

I Smell Snow – Download

This is a printable art poster of this abstract portrait painting titled 'A Glimpse of Light.'

A Glimpse Of Light – Download

This painting is inspired by Psalm 113. Verse 3: "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised." is written on the painting

To be Praised – Psalm 113 – Original Art

€ 800,00

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This is a printable poster of a photograph of flowers behind a window based on John 8:12

The Light of Life – John 8:12 – Download

I Witness and Wait - a portrait painting inspired by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I Witness and Wait

€ 15,00 – € 250,00

This is an original acrylic painting on paper titled 'I Feel Alive When I Miss You'. The lamp in the painting I received from my grandfather who passed away and whenever I see the lamp I'm reminded of him.

I Feel Alive When I Miss You – Original Painting

€ 475,00

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This is a printable artwork titled 'Roots'. It is inspired by these words from Virginia Woolf's book The Waves: "I am the stalk. My roots go down to the depths of the world. The weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs." This quote is also written on the painting.

Roots – Download

This is an original acrylic painting titled 'I want to live in expectation' - the title and the little text on the painting are from a diary entry.

I Want to Live in Expectation – Download

Wear Them like Ornaments – Missing a Child – Download

Original acrylic painting of an abstract field of flowers

A Field of Flowers – Original Painting

€ 220,00

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This is an acrylic painting based on psalm 139. I was listening a lot to the song The Welcome Wagen made based on this psalm while making it. The text on the painting is: "If deepest darkness covers me, The darkness hideth not from Thee, To You both night and day are bright, The darkness shineth as the light."

Darkness Shines as the Light – Psalm 139 – Original Painting

€ 700,00

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This is an original acrylic painting on canvas of a girl hiding herself from the world, but unable to hide her beauty.

Don’t Hide – Original Painting

€ 150,00

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This is an original acrylic painting titled 'Grandpa's Sweater'

Baby, Do You Like My Sweater? – Original Painting

€ 200,00

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This is a painting of a girl in a green dress standing before a red sofa and yellow wallpaper. Her dress from the waist down is visible, the rest is covered in black shadows. A little bit of light shines on her and that's all that's visible

My Name Is My Home – Download

This is an A3-size PDF printable poster based on the Mad Famer Manifesto Poem by Wendell Berry, titled 'Practice Resurrection'.

Practice Resurrection – Inspired by Wendell Berry – Download

Art on finding beauty in grieving - a printable poster titled 'where I find you' A old man holding fast to a wall of bright flowers

Where I Find You – Find Beauty in Grieving – Original Painting

€ 200,00

This is an original acrylic painting on canvas titled 'Let Go'

Let Go – Original Painting

€ 200,00

This is an original oil painting on canvas of a vase of flowers.

Vase of Flowers – Original Painting

€ 75,00

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This printable poster is inspired by Psalm 113. Verse 3: "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised." is written on the painting

To be Praised – Psalm 113 – Download

Picking Flowers – Download

This original acrylic painting is partly inspired by my fascination for birds, especially how they seem to enjoy windy weather a lot. It often looks to me like they are having a party on moments like that. It is also inspired by Matthew 6: 25+26: "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?"

Have A Little Party – Matthew 6 – Original Art

€ 800,00

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Have Life, and Have it Abundantly – John 10:10 – Download

This is an original acrylic painting titled 'I want to live in expectation' - the title and the little text on the painting are from a diary entry.

I Want to Live in Expectation – Original Art

€ 800,00

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This is an original acrylic painting titled ‘I Love You’.

I Love You – Original Painting

€ 1.100,00

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This is a printable PDF of a painting on John 14:1 where Jesus says: "Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me."

Let Not Your Heart be Troubled – John 14:1 – Download

Suggested price: € 5,00

This is a painting of mountains. The title is from a line of one of the 'Window Poems' by Wendell Berry that you can read here

The Second Coming of the Trees – Original Art

€ 700,00

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This is a printable poster titled 'In Disguise'

In Disguise – Download

This is an art poster download of this painting titled 'Love Come to Me'

Love Come to Me – Download

Suggested price: € 10,00

This is a printable poster titled 'Live Expectantly'

Live Expectantly – Download

This is an original acrylic painting on paper. The text written on the painting is: 'Ik leef breed, stil & langzaam' Which translated to English means 'I live wide, quiet & slow.'

Ik Leef Breed / I Live Wide – Download

Suggested price: € 15,00

This is a printable poster of a girl hiding herself from the world.

Don’t Hide – Download

Art on finding beauty in grieving - a printable poster titled 'where I find you' A old man holding fast to a wall of bright flowers

Where I Find You – Find Beauty in Grieving – Download

An acrylic painting inspired by Oscar Wilde's profundis. On it you see an abstract portrait of a bald man, resting on his hand and looking away.

Sorrow – Download

This is an original acrylic painting on paper. The text written on the painting is: 'Ik leef breed, stil & langzaam' Which translated to English means 'I live wide, quiet & slow.'

Ik Leef Breed / I Live Wide – Original Painting

€ 475,00

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This is a printable poster titled ‘Fearless’

Fearless – Download

This is an original acrylic painting titled ‘Love Alone is Worth the fight.' The title comes from this song by Switchfoot.

Love Alone is Worth The Fight – Original Painting

€ 200,00

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Practice Resurrection – Inspired by Wendell Berry – Original Painting

€ 550,00

This is a painting of a girl in a green dress standing before a red sofa and yellow wallpaper. Her dress from the waist down is visible, the rest is covered in black shadows. A little bit of light shines on her and that's all that's visible

My Name Is My Home – Original Painting

€ 1.100,00

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This is a printable illustration I made to remind myself of these beautiful and powerful words in psalm 27: "The Lord is my light and my salvation, so why should I be afraid? The Lord is my life's fortress, so why should I tremble?"

Why Should I Be Afraid? – Psalm 27 – Download

Suggested price: € 5,00

This is an original acrylic painting on canvas titled ‘Fearless’

Fearless – Original Painting

€ 350,00

Darkness Shines as the Light – Psalm 139 – Download

This is an original acrylic painting on paper titled 'Roots'. It is inspired by these words from Virginia Woolf's book The Waves: "I am the stalk. My roots go down to the depths of the world. The weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs." This quote is also written on the painting.

Roots – Original Painting

€ 1.100,00

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This is an original acrylic painting titled ‘Wear Them Like Ornaments’ It is derived from a scripture in the Bible: Isaiah 49:18 "Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live," declares the LORD, "you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride" And later God says in verse 22: "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “See, I will beckon to the nations,I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips."

Wear Them like Ornaments – Missing a Child – Original Art

€ 800,00

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This is a printable poster of a portrait of Vincent van Gogh. Read the story I wrote to understand the text 'la tristesse durera toujours' on the painting

All Heart – Portrait of Vincent van Gogh – Download

This is an original acrylic painting titled 'A New Civilisation Starts With An Open Heart' The text is out of a a song by Sea + Air titled 'Take me for a ride'.

A New Civilisation Starts With An Open Heart – Original Painting

€ 250,00

Live Expectantly – Original Painting

€ 200,00

This is an original acrylic painting titled 'Cycling in the Rain'

Cycling in the Rain – Original Painting

€ 420,00

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This is an original acrylic painting on paper titled 'Ik Tel Mijn Zegeningen' or translated to English 'I Count My Blessings'.

I Count My Blessings – Original Painting

€ 500,00

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The book 'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf is so strange and wonderful. Many paragraphs and sentences inspired me. This painting is inspired by this one: "And being in love for the first time, I made a phrase - a poem about a wood-pigeon - a single phrase, for a hole had been knocked in my mind, one of those sudden transparencies through which one sees everything."

And Being in Love For the First Time, I Made A Phrase – Original

€ 400,00

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This painting is inspired by the next passage out of The Profundis by Oscar Wilde: “Of course the sinner must repent. But why? Simply because otherwise he would be unable to realise what he had done. The moment of repentance is the moment of initiation. More than that: it is the means by which one alters one’s past. The Greeks thought that impossible. They often say in their Gnomic aphorisms, ‘Even the Gods cannot alter the past.’ Christ showed that the commonest sinner could do it, that it was the one thing he could do.

Alter The Past (Oscar Wilde) – Download

Be Nothing – Download

This is an original acrylic abstract portrait painting on paper titled 'A Glimpse of Light.'

A Glimpse Of Light – Original Painting

€ 600,00

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An acrylic painting of a white house. You see the kitchen window and the reflection of another part of the house in the window. There is a green bush growing in front of the house. In small letter is written on the house: "That you may have live and have it abundantly"

Have Life, and Have it Abundantly – John 10:10 – Original Painting

€ 600,00

This is an original acrylic/watercolor portrait painting titled 'Still Lovely'.

Still Lovely – Download

This is a printable artwork based on Sufjan Stevens song 'Carrie & Lowell, especially the phrase "Under the pear tree, shadows and light conspiring."

Shadows and Light Conspiring – Sufjan Stevens’ ‘Carrie & Lowell’ – Download

An acrylic painting inspired by Oscar Wilde's profundis. On it you see an abstract portrait of a bald man, resting on his hand and looking away.

Sorrow – Original Painting

€ 920,00

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This is an original acrylic painting on paper titled 'Every Moment Should be Beautiful' This is a line from Oscar Wilde that he wrote in The Profundis.

Every Moment Should Be Beautiful – Original Painting

€ 475,00

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This is a printable poster titled 'Let Go'

Let Go – Download

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€ 12,00 – € 380,00

This is an original acrylic painting on paper titled 'I Feel Alive When I Miss You'. The lamp in the painting I received from my grandfather who passed away and whenever I see the lamp I'm reminded of him.

I Feel Alive When I Miss You – Download

This is a printable artwork of an abstract flower field. You can download it instantly.

A Field of Flowers – Bring joy into Any Room – Download

This is an original acrylic sunset landscape painting titled 'Hier Ben Ik' These words are also written on the painting, translated from Dutch it means 'Here I Am'.

Hier Ben Ik (Here I Am) – Original Painting

€ 400,00

This is a printable poster titled ‘I've Got Freedom’

I’ve Got Freedom – Download

De roze blaadjes origineel acrylschilderij met gedicht

De Roze Blaadjes (The Pink Leaves) – Original Painting

€ 250,00

This is a printable poster titled ‘Love Alone is Worth the fight.' The title comes from this song by Switchfoot.

Love Alone is Worth The Fight – Download

This is an original acrylic painting on paper titled 'Ik Tel Mijn Zegeningen' or translated to English 'I Count My Blessings'.

I Count My Blessings – Download

This is a printable poster of mountains. The title is from a line of one of the 'Window Poems' by Wendell Berry that you can read here

The Second Coming of the Trees – Download

Baby, Do You Like My Sweater? – Download

be nothing portrait painting on identity

Be Nothing – Original Painting

€ 920,00

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virginia woolf art To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes.

To Be Myself – Original Painting

€ 450,00