PAINT : (continued...)

(...) In any case, I can recognise the quality of a paint and its covering capacity, so I would not accept putting on three coats when, using quality paint, the same result can be achieved with one. I also know that a paint chosen from a little printed square on a chart will look quite different on walls and in the light in the actual location, but that is something that everyone has learned sooner or later, to their cost. So I sell cards painted in all the colours of our range to compare them with the actual light in the actual location.

I would like to conclude by saying where these colours come from. A great deal of time spent in museums and books must have a lot to do with it, but most of all, it is the "colour of the water in the canal opposite the Chien Vert" which serves as my inspiration, or an excessively pale Belgian sky. And sometimes the names of the colours just speak for themselves.