A night in Amsterdam

Leonid Afremov (1955–2019), a Belarusian-Israeli painter.

This is his best-known kind of picture:

Technique: thick paint applied with a palette knife instead of a brush (impasto), so the paint stands up in raised, sculpted dabs. That's what gives the leaves their mosaic look.

Subject: a rainy evening in a city park or boulevard, with glowing street lamps, figures under umbrellas and wet pavement.

Colour: vivid oranges, yellows and reds set against deep blues and turquoise, so the lamplight seems to glow.

Reflections: the wet ground mirrors the lights in long vertical streaks, one of his signature effects.

(Demo Art)