Annotaties 1875 - 1934

This page of annotations by Isaac Israels… it’s like a painter's notebook, a place to jot down thoughts, sketches, and ideas in a visual form. I can imagine him, brush or pen in hand, hovering over the surface, tentatively marking, erasing, and building up layers of meaning through a kind of trial and error. The scribbled notes and abstract forms offer a glimpse into the artist’s mind, a raw and unfiltered expression of thought. Was he working on multiple paintings at once? It's like a conversation between himself and other artists, a dialogue spanning time and space. I do that all the time in my studio, a constant push and pull, a back-and-forth between intention and accident, control and chaos. Each mark, each gesture, carries weight, an attempt to capture something elusive and intangible. Artists are always in conversation, aren't they? We are always inspiring one another’s creativity. The beauty of painting lies in its ambiguity, its capacity to embrace multiple interpretations.