door Michelle Dujardin
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21 mrt., 2020
In spring 2015 I got a request from an American Facebook friend and fellow Zendrawing artist to meet in 'Keukenhof' -the colorful exhibition of flowers and tulips near Amsterdam- as he was visiting Holland for the first time. Even though I have lived very close to 'Keukenhof' all my live, I never visited this colorful exhibition of flowers, so I accepted his invitation. Besides seeing my friend, I also loved to go to this magnificent exhibition for some inspiration and to do some on the spot drawing and painting. In case you have never heard of 'Keukenhof': this is one of the main tourist-attractions of the Netherlands, like the canals of Amsterdam, the windmills of Kinderdijk and Rembrandt's paintings. Every spring more than a million visitors from all over the world visit this exhibition to see a wide variety of magnificent flowers, mostly tulips, beautifully arranged by color. So on a beautiful sunny day in May, we had a fantastic day in 'Keukenhof' and despite all those thousands of people from all over the world, the energy was lovely, bright and surprisingly calm and the colors and flowers were magnificent. This day made a lasting impression on me and the park turned out to be a fantastic place for inspiration and painting.