My father-in-law has (re)produced 70 paintings so far. He started painting approximately 40 years ago and I must say that he is really good considering he never had any formal lessons nor training in painting. Colors he would just mix in his head and he has once told me that ” everything would just fall in their places “ . Father-in-law has given away some of them to few good friends who were willing to pay for the paintings but my father in law would never sell them. It was enough for him that his friends are happy with his work.

But it wasn’t only friends who are impressed with his work, some galleries have offered him to exhibit his paintings but he always refused. Simple man that he is. NO to money (big or small amount) and NO to exhibits. And all his remaining paintings will remain in the family. Never to be given away. Probably because he has given away more than he wanted to.

Below is one of my favorites, this one hangs in his wall…in his bedroom to be exact. I’m glad he hasn’t given this one away, whew!

One time when we went to his house for a visit, I was armed with my camera with the intention of capturing his paintings so I just started shooting and came up with a bunch of pictures, so this will be a series of his work. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy taking their pictures.

” Milk Maid ” (1658-1660) by Johannes Vermeer

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Johannes Vermeer or Jan Vermeer (baptized October 31, 1632, died December 15, 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary bourgeois life. His entire life was spent in the town of Delft. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial painter in his lifetime. He seems to have never been particularly wealthy, perhaps due to the fact that he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and eleven children in debt at his death.

Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years, in 1866 the art critic Thoré Bürger published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him (only 35 paintings are firmly attributed to him today). Since that time Vermeer’s reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, and is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. ……wikipedia source

deel 1 ( part 1) of the series.

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