The Danube—how long I’ve wanted to paint you! We first met a couple of years ago, on my daughter’s tenth birthday—the very day Christmas is celebrated across Europe. It was bitterly cold, yet Budapest was magnificent. It is not without reason that it is called the “Pearl of the Danube”…
The city struck me as light, luminous, and full of movement, with a breeze that carried a lovely fragrance—a true treasure. My new work, *Pearl of the Danube*, is dedicated to those memories of Budapest.
