When Paintings Find New Homes
Wednesday marked my final exhibition day at Galerie De Pomp in Warmond for 2025. Over the past weeks, several works were sold and left Galerie De Pomp for new homes.
Conversations Around the Work
What stayed with me most were the conversations. Visitors often shared deeply personal reflections while standing in front of the work. Sometimes about memories, sometimes about loss, silence, tenderness, or recognition.
During an art talk at Galerie De Pomp, I also spoke more openly about how certain figures and symbols continue returning throughout different series, and how memory, intuition, and personal stories slowly emerge during the process. I always find it remarkable how differently people enter a painting. No two encounters are the same.
When a Painting Leaves
A painting changes once it leaves the studio. It becomes part of another person, another interior, another life. That transition still feels special to me every time. Some collectors choose intuitively. Others return several times before deciding. I value both equally.
The Terrace
Sitting outside on the terrace yesterday afternoon, in the late summer light of Warmond, I felt that more strongly than before. The work no longer belongs entirely to me once it begins living inside someone else’s world. I am happy with it.
Thank you Galerie De Pomp for the openness, the conversations, and the care surrounding the exhibition. And thank you to everyone who took one of my works home.
– Leonoor