Recently Peter Vos started a series of paintings of young women holding a bird on their hand. Their appearance and expression varies from soft and dreamy to harsh and alert. Abstract shapes are applied to their clothing, related to Art Deco and the flat patterns from Japanese art that influenced painters like Van Gogh and Gauguin. Girl with Blackbird shows a girl wearing a dress and headscarf with triangular ornaments. With a delicate gaze she looks at the blackbird whose small beak is echoed in the red fingernail of the girl.