Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece. There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold, and interesting.
– Kerli
Sofia is our lovely guide this week, and she wants us to be Bold – or at least send pictures that speak bold. Please visit her beautiful site for more inspiration!
Colours and patterns in furniture – can indeed be bold. I like it, but maybe not in my own house…
Gaudi was one of the most bold architects according to me. I am looking forward to seeing a Sagrada Família fully fledged in 2026.
Last Tuesday we saw the immersive exhibition of Frida Kahlo in Malmoe. The Mexican painter and artist who was severely wounded in a bus accident at the age of 19, and lived with constant pain until her death in 1954, only 47 years old. Few people and artists were that bold and colourful as she was in both life and works.
Finally, In the true spirit of it, be bold and take us all somewhere new, Sofia says. How…? Well, you asked for it…it is rather bold of me, in this famous company, to show one of my wild paintings (I don’t call it art…)for my granddaughter. Creatures.
I am truly grateful for the many beautiful and thoughtful answers to last week’s challenge – and we all managed to post only ONE image! I guessed it would be difficult, but you really made it work – and work so well, that I had tears in my eyes more than once…
So now – welcome to this week and Sofia’s magic. Remember to link back to her post and to tag Lens-Artists so we can find you.
Stay well, keep calm and make the best of your week.
Leya 
I love your painting 🎨
I agree with you, the cabinet is fantastic, but questionable if I would want it in my home. Photo number two is absolutely stunning!! You give a very thoughtful tribute to Frida Kahlo, a very special person and artist 💚
Indeed special.
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Great Bold selection, A-C!
What a colourful set you have here. Bold indeed
Thank you!
A veritable plethora Leya. The Swedish might call is a smorgasbord? Well done.
Haha, well, maybe so!
Thank you for picking art, where we can truly be bold. And I love your wild painting, it is art, and that you were bold to share it with us.
Thank you for a lovely challenge – and for your kind words! Art and architecture are the easiest places to find boldness!
You’re right, Ann-Christine, bold could be a proper nickname for Gaudi. I‘m also waiting to see his cathedral finished. I love his artistry since I saw it for the first time in a student‘s calendar in the 1970s.
About the same time I did!
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These are amazing Ann-Christine, Frida Kahlo’s artwork is very bold and very unique. Your first image reminds me of a play I went to see once,. It was the Importance of Being Ernest, I think. The set was done in floral fabric, no one floral fabric, but lots. They were all different patterns and colours, one of the most amazing sets I’ve ever seen.
Thank you, Leanne! I would have loved to see that set!
Great examples – love the architecture!
Thank you – I believe that is an area well suited for bold!
Great, bold choices! The immersive exhibit of Frida Kahlo looks interesting.
Thank you. I love those immersive exhibits.
There’s a lot of BOLD in this post Ann-Christine, especially your own painting. I bet your granddaughter loved it.
Ha, thank you…she did!
I quite like the chest of drawers, but maybe just the one! Your painting is fabulous, you are far too modest. I hope you will be encouraged to share more of your artwork in the future.
You are very kind, Jude! It took some courage to post it.
Having only seen Gaudi’s work in-person in the last five years, I was oblivious to his bold works. Only two visits to Barcelona introduced me.
Having noted that, Ann-Christine, I am in awe of your talent as an artist. I can’t use a ruler to draw a straight line. (It seems there’s always a little curve in the line as the pen goes around my misplaced finger. >grin<)
😀 Well, thank you for calling me an ”artist”, I take it as positive! An for Gaudi – I think it is the way to design this cathedral and his houses I consider bold. I don’t think it was a common way to use nature as the model of great architecture.
And I cannot draw a straight line without a ruler…
All of your choices this week are wonderful (as usual) Ann-Christine. But your closing image is my favorite for SO many reasons!
like what you wrote.😍😍
Haha, well, I thank you from my heart, Tina! It took some courage to post that one…
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Dear Ann Christine
Thanks for your examples. We agree the colours Frida Kahlo uses are indeed bold. We don’t see Gaudi’s architecture as bold, but we are not the right ones to judge it because we find his architecture horrible. We very much like this chest of drawers. We would immediately place it in one of our bathrooms.
Wishing you a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you. I don’t know if it is bold architecture either, but I find it bold to dare changeing the concept of a cathedral that much. I guess nobody had done that before. And as he relied on and lifted the natural world in his architecture, I find him very bold…
And Frida Kahlo, I found her whole life and person bold. Her work is not to my taste, but she is a very interesting person!
All the best
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Dear Leya
We like Frida Kahlo’s art.
A similar change of concept in church architecture took place with the change from the Romanesque to the Gotic style. Opening the walls with those big windows was seen as a kind of revolutionary magic.
All the best best to you as well
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you, and yes, style changes over the centuries. I wonder what is coming next. But that goes for everything in this unruly world right now. It’s frightening, and I don’t sleep well. Friends in Ukraine and America are worried more than ever. Now Europe is worried too.
Dear Ann-Christine
Everything is changing all the time. ‘Because it is like this, it will change’, wrote Brecht in times before the Second World War.
The changes in the US are frightening indeed.
Nevertheless, keep well
The Fab Four of Cley
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Your photo choices certainly illustrated the theme ‘bold’ very well, Ann-Christine. A talented photographer and now I know you as a painter as well, bravo!
Thank you! I love to scribble and doodle…
Beautiful images Ann-Christine and I LOVE the painting you did for your granddaughter – it would make a lovely greeting card too 💛 xxx
Thank you for your kind words!
Great and Bold examples. And I love your picture for your granddaughter. What a lovely and special thing to do for her.
Nice bold images. Was that first picture, of the street entertainer, taken in Covent Garden, London?
Yes, it was – many years ago!
Fab examples AC. Love this furniture. Bold indeed!
Thank you!
Welcome, AC.
PS: I’ve just realized that I kept writing your name wrong, Ann-Christine. So sorry for that. 🙏 I at least changed it in my post.❤️
No worries, I am used to it!
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A great quote and an overwhelmingly beautiful collection of grand pieces of art, yours included, Anne-Christine! Love every bit of this multifaceted, colorful post 🎨!
♥ Many thanks, Yanaj, for a lovely comment!
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Many a fine example and I agree on them as well Ann-Christine. I have seen the Sagrada twice and to see it finished would be a wonderful experience
We’re planning – hoping to be well enough to go.
When I went we basically just walked in. I hear you have to book now to go inside so planning is good
Love the Bold response 😀
Thank you, PR!
Excellent examples of boldness.
I like that painting of yours and you have every right to show it. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Nes! Took some thinking, but it fitted the challenge!
Flowers and nature means peace and innocence, your paintings carry that message
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I love your painting and that you were bold enough to share it, along with great examples of bold colors and art. Thank you Ann-Christine.
Thank you for your positive comment! It took some courage to post my scribbling!
You’re most welcome.
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That’s your painting? Oh, to be so talented! I was so sad not to join your challenge, Ann-Christine. I was challenged in many ways this week and I did spend time looking for the ‘one’ that spoke to me, but already it’s Saturday evening and we’ve moved on to a new challenge. Nothing stands still…
You are very kind, Jo, thank you. I love scribbling for little Myra! She is totally into dinosaurs now, and I am trying birds for her – fantasy birds. She likes it.
My grandson was captivated by dinosaurs too, but models and posters had to suffice. She’s very lucky, and I expect you feel lucky too, to be able to share the joy.
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I love your selections, especially the Frida Kahlo and your painting! Very bold!
Thank you!
Am NOT ‘funning’ – absolutely love all you are showing! Am furious at not having been to Barcelona – Gaudi being one of the reasons. Freda Kahlo – do not like her work but have, again always, been fascinated by her! Smile at bold furniture but could not live with it. And, dear Ma’am, I would hang one of your ‘wild’ paintings at the ‘drop of my hat’ . . . busy but beautiful . . . I may just ask in the future as to whether you do commissions . . . OK, once I have finished my morning coffee > to Sofia!
Thank you, Eha! And no, I do not like Kahlo’s work either, but always found her a fascinating and strong woman.
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Ann-Christine, what a beautiful selection you gave us. The wardrobe colors, the Familia Sagrada, Frida Kahlo’s life, and your uplifting artwork are wonderful.
Thank you for your lovely comment, Egidio!
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I’d say you nailed that challenge
Thank you!