1964 Retires from teaching to devote himself fully to painting: his first very somber pallet has completely changed, color and light now have become very important: in the outdoors he makes sketches and water-colors, which he transforms in his studio into oil paintings;
1965 Through the purchase of a boat he is able to explore his favorite subject: polders, puddles and lakes;
1966 Studies light and space especially in Greece;
1970 Influenced by Cézanne he makes study trips with
his wife to the Provence where he mainly produces water colors; |