Only a few paintings throughout history became as iconic as Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, which served as inspiration for many artists over the years. Aja Trier is one of them and she made a name for herself by creating adorable dog paintings that pay homage to The Starry Night.
Van Gogh originally painted The Starry Night in 1889, just a year before his death. This painting went down in history as his magnum opus and showed the view from a window at his asylum before sunrise, with an imaginary village lurking in the background.
Over a century after Van Gogh created this iconic painting, Aja Trier decided to put her own twist on it by adding dogs to the mix. Like the original, Trier’s paintings feature blue and yellow swirling figures with one significant difference – a dog is inserted into each one.
Trier fell in love with painting at a young age thanks to her mom and enrolled at Montserrat College of Art after graduating from high school. She opened Sagittarius Gallery in 2003, but it took a while before she started working on The Starry Night-inspired paintings. She embarked on this journey in 2020 and created over a hundred dog paintings showing dogs at the backdrop of Van Gogh’s iconic star-lit landscape.
