The Bread Maker

In this original painting, inspired by the Renaissance, we meet a young girl standing with impressive serenity in an ancient kitchen. Dressed in a modest white dress with a blue belt and a white veil on her head, she gently kneads dough on a heavy wooden table. Her surroundings are filled with everyday but graceful objects: a golden loaf of challah, clay pots, antique jugs, fresh fruit in a basket, and soft rays of light filtering through a white curtain. The gentle Renaissance light, the play of deep shadows and warm highlights on the dough and her face, gives the painting a sense of everyday holiness. The girl seems absorbed in her work, but also distant in her thoughts, as if she is part of an ancient tradition of women making bread – a symbol of life, abundance and blessing. The painting combines precise realism with a dreamy-romantic atmosphere, and is reminiscent of the beauty of 17th-century Dutch painting, but with a unique personal and cultural touch. One painting from a series of paintings I painted inspired by the Renaissance period.