These three paintings were made for Peachtober, the yearly artist challenge on Instagram, where every day comes with a prompt. Some prompts were more straightforward, others needed more creativity to find out how I could fit them into the painting.

Together they make a series about one day at the table. Each painting shows a different part of the day, because we experience three big occasions to eat: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Each has its own food, typical for its time of the day, but a similar tablecloth or same pattern of the plates, that is what joins all three together.

Trying to capture the table just after we have finished eating. Some plates are already empty, the cake is half eaten and the tea is drunk, so what is left on the table tells the story on its own. That is why the paintings are called After Breakfast, After Lunch and After Dinner.

While sketching, I kept asking myself how a table could look in the morning, when we are just excited for the meal, and how it could look in the evening, when we seek a warm meal that makes us comfortable after a long day.

year: 2026
watercolor on paper: 50 × 70 cm
paints: Daniel Smith, Winsor&Newton
paper: Baohong cold pressed

eaten series