Van gogh biography ks2 bitesize

I was born over 140 years ago in another country called Holland.

I used to draw and paint people who worked on the land, people like farmers.

It wasn't very easy trying to make things grow in the cold, wet soil.

I used to draw the farm people all day, and even painted them at night while they ate the potatoes that they'd grown.

My impression of the land in Holland was that it was dark, cold and gloomy, and so I used dark colours when I drew and painted - blacks and browns and dark greens.

But then I moved to another country - France.

How different it felt to cold, gloomy Holland.

How warm the sun was.

And the colours - so exciting, so alive!

Everything looked brighter.

And I began to use bold, bright colours to match what I saw.

Red, blue, green…and yellow, my favourite colour - yellow.

The colour of sun, of warmth, of happiness.

I never got tired of painting growing things.

Flowers, trees, grasses - they seemed so alive, and they looked different in differen