"As I get older, I still love to be in the countryside. It’s where I find myself, find silence and beauty, light and colour, stillness and movement. It seems that life is in balance there and that everything fits together."

"And I always rediscover how to put what I experience and see on paper."

"In this series, I examine the woods in drawings and paintings of trees and lanes at different hours of the day and in all seasons -early morning to sunset-; spring with a light yellow and green; summer in a dark green and blue; autumn with all colours from red to bronze and orange, yellow, and black; in winter all of these in paler shades and sometimes in a frozen grey or white."

Charles Vermaas, April 2020