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TURNING GREAT WORKS OF LITERATURE INTO PAINTINGS

Feat. Garcia Marquez "100 Years of solitude"

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Book quote: The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.

200x100 cm, Acrylic on Canvas SOLD

Feat. Stefan Zweig  "A chess story"

Book quote: my whole being and feeling pushed me into the checkered square

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in black floating frame SOLD

Feat. Patrick Süskind  "The perfume"

Book quote: Incomprehensible, this scent, indescribable, no way to classify it, it actually should not even exist

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in pink floating frame SOLD

Feat. Oscar Wilde  "The picture of Dorian Gray"

Book quote: The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink flowering-thorn.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in neon orange floating frame AVAILABLE (SHOP NOW)

Feat. Leo Tolstoi "Anna Karenina"

Book quote: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in turquois floating frame SOLD

Feat. Gustave Flaubert "Madame Bovary"

Book quote: She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in white floating frame SOLD

Feat. John Steinbeck "Of Mice and Men"

Book quote: I got you to look after me and you got me to look after you and that's why.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in wooden floating frame SOLD

Feat. Daphne Du Maurier "Rebecca"

Feat. Daphne Du Maurier "Rebecca"

Book quote: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in white floating frame AVAILABLE (SHOP NOW)

Feat. Virginia Woolf "Orlando"

A photo of Vita Sackville-West (Virginia Woolf´s lover) was used as a reference for this Orlando interpretation.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in natural wood floating frame AVAILABLE (SHOP NOW)

Feat. Jack Kerouac "On the road"

Book quote: the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in white floating frame SOLD

Feat. Audrey Niffenegger "The timetraveler's wife"

Book quote: Time is priceless, but it's free.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in black floating frame SOLD

Feat. Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

Book quote: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in wooden floating frame AVAILABLE (SHOP NOW)

Feat. Aldous Huxley "Brave New World"

Book quote: But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in neon green floating frame AVAILABLE (SHOP NOW)

Feat. William Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet"

Book quote: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in wooden floating frame AVAILABLE (SHOP NOW)

Feat. Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

Book quote: He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in custom made black frame SOLD

Feat. Waris Dirie "Desert Flower"

Book quote: When one travels the road of life, weathering storms, enjoying the sunshine, standing in the eye of many hurricanes, survival is determined only by the strength of one's will.

60x80 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, framed in  black frame SOLD

Feat. Edmund de Waal "The hare with amber eyes"

Book quote: What will be remembered, what do we forget?

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