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 quietly left the space and found new homes. Each departure carried its own story, not only about the paintings themselves, but about the people connecting to them.
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. Moments where something inside the image seemed to continue beyond language.
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. Not because the work is “sold,” but because it continues somewhere else.
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 reactions from viewers and collectors gradually acquire another layer of meaning. 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 allowed the work to travel further with them.
– Leonoor