Bart Westgeest

I can have trouble taking myself serious when I paint or write, even to an extent that it often makes me stop doing what I want to do. I mirror my own thoughts onto others and think that many people have no idea that something like painting is actually working, it requires a lot of [...]

I thought this morning about the turns life can take, movements that confuse me as I want it to be linear. I liked to write in the early 90′ties. But I replaced it by painting landscapes and was bit by it for more than a decade. This passion became impossible and I returned to writing, still [...]

I read a handful of poems yesterday and liked two by C. G. Rossetti (1830-94). Easy to spot that she had something to do with the pre-raphaelite movement. In the poem Dreamland the same themes are apparent as in some of the paintings by this movement. DREAM-LAND. Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a [...]

Thomas Cole’s The Arcadian or Pastoral State, 1834. (source wikipedia) In writing one can describe a perfect world. For some this might be a pre-industrial society in an ancient rural setting. Like a scene with peasants and shepherds, birds in the sky, green trees and wide open planes with mountains at a rugged coast [...]