When people come to see my pictures and we meet on exhibition openings I receive many times the question, what kind of things do inspire me to make a picture? I have got a new picture as an answer to this question showing how stamps can inspire me.

 

The process of creation started with sorting the stamps. I received many colourful Italian stamps which I new already as I made my picture Taormina as I see it using the same stamps. The sorting was followed by the research work. We looked up this stamp at first in the online stamp catalogue Colnect and found out that the title of this series was Coin of Syracuse (1953 – 1965). Curiosity in us and our desire for knowledge heeled us and finally we found the coin which inspired the issuing of these stamps in Italy. The coin featured Artemis, Greek god of hunting.  Learning this fact, I decided to use also a nice Hungarian series issued in 1971 titled Hunting and fishing. This research was followed by finalising the design, glueing the stamps and finding also the best frame for the picture.