Kamiel and the ladies

In this painting here, Kamiel was being inspired by one of the Belgian surrealists.

In real life, his relations with women in general tended to be a bit of a surrealistic nature as well.

Well aware of his restrictions, when it came to making conversation, Kamiel was a little bit shy to approach women. This could lead to ludicrous situations, leaving the women in question puzzled or baffled.

In short Kamiel never got the response he wanted: to be able to ask a lady to dance was near to impossible for him. Because of the communication problems he always seemed to get it wrong somehow!

As he grew older, he sadly came to the conclusion that all women were bad. This image was often to be found in his works ...