It’s interesting the type of artwork that can subtly influence your style growing up… my grandmother’s home had a lot of beautiful paintings from her travels around the world. The ones that stand out the most in my memory were thick oil paintings of stormy seas, a creepy old sea captain whose eyes followed you, an African woman painted with green skin tones, and a portrait of Mother Teresa. These two small paintings she bought in Holland are very rich in colour in the light, but very dark indoors! I think these paintings influence my love of detailed town scapes, and is also a favourite colour palette of mine. It’s hard to make out the signature because of the handwriting but they but look to be painted by K. deTonq K. de Jong. I was unable to find any work by this artist. And with some much appreciated help from Patrick after posting the artist’s signature, found they are painted by Klaas de Jong.

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Following up with Patrick’s comment, here’s the signature of the artist, in case it rings a bell with anyone!