Lina van den Bos
When I heard that we had to do this assignment, ode to the bank, I immediately felt like getting started, because I love nature and photography. I had taken pictures of different kinds of banks and plants. So I had made a collage of water lilies, one with pictures of a ditch during a sunset, open landscapes with ditches and one of swans. It took me a long time to choose exactly what I was going to represent in my painting, because I liked everything. Finally I had chosen the swans, because I think swans are beautiful animals and of course they are part of the water life in the Netherlands. I live by the water and swans were swimming past our garden every day last summer. I was inspired by expressionist art when painting this painting.
