Some information
The work is about fractions, small parts of a whole. And about light shining through an object, or reflecting on it.It refers to jewellery, quartz and minerals, chain links, and in a more abstract way to connected and linked forms. Beauty inspires me. It can be anything: forms, details, light, colours that catch my eye. It can be found in my direct environment and I find it in nature, but also in the use and combination of colours in magazines, in photographs or graphics; even in manuals. Alongside perceiving I feel an urge of creating: of turning it into paint. I always try different techniques to express the theme of my work. Technique is interesting to me in order to reach certain effects in a result I pursue. It plays an important role in the image as it determines a quality of the image. In big drawings I am often experimenting, searching for new forms and possibilities. Murals are mostly made for specific spaces/locations. This one was made for an exhibition, for a wall of 4,5 m x 20 m. It had to be done in one week, so I had to plan it beforehand and then paint it on location. It needed a good preparation and still was very exciting to do. I painted it with acrylic paint. Parts may look like they were sprayed but they’re not. The image is an abstraction of a chain link, as I actually painted the counterform of it. It was part of this exhibition, and it was my third mural in a link chain series. The painted object 42 x 30 x 2,2 cm is a serial product that is at the same time a unique work of art. Every single object in this series is painted on an MDF form with rounded 2 cm edges, each different from the other.Initially based on minerals, the layers of paint are abstract. The painting is about light, depth, and colour and its gradients.
Exhibitions etc…
2022
Wild Summer of Art : group exhibition 180 Rotterdam based artists
Brutus Rotterdam
Blind Walls Breda. Open Call Mural
Collision Project : MURAL in Groothandelsgebouw (Rdam) in Collision project
Tropicana Fest : group exhibition in Bluecity ( a.k.a. tropicana) Rotterdam
by: NeonFoundation
2021
Publieke Werken Rotterdam- Art on Poster in Rotterdam city outside and Maastunnel 600 artists
Big Art-Hembrug terrein Amsterdam MURAL: 8mx 5m voor Murals.Inc
Goethe Institut Rotterdam – duo tentoonstelling met Rachel Carrey
This Art Fair Amsterdam
publicatie Ever Emerging ( online Magazine) “The Dutch Edition”
2020
Mural Hilton-Art-Lab (Herman Lamers) Rotterdam
Residence Grafisch Atelier Dresden
Murals.Inc Gallery Rotterdam
Gallery Phoebus Rotterdam
2019
“Übergangsweise #10 “Goethe Institut Rotterdam. Group exhibition “Maand v.d Grafiek” Appendix
Art on Paper Amsterdam. Gallery Phoebus
Gallery Phoebus Rotterdam group exhibition: Daniel Dutrieux, Esther Bruggink, Regula Maria Müller Eva-Maria Schön, Bernard Villers
Het Kunstgemaal, Bronkhorst group exhibition “5 Jaar”
Tekenkabinet#7 Amstelpark, Amsterdam
2018
B.a.d Lab Test Results #4 Rotterdam + Laurien Dumbar, Romee van Oers
Gallery Phoebus Rotterdam
Tekenkabinet No.6 Amsterdam
Het Kunstgemaal Bronkhorst “Twilight F urniture” Group exhibition Anya Janssen, Riette Wanders, Robbert Pauwels curator: Anya Janssen
OPEN STUDIOS Borgerstraat Rotterdam parallel to Art Rotterdam Guest artist show+ open studios
2017
Arte Concordia: “kunstenaarsvlag “voor in Avenue Concordia en vlaggen parade Boompjes. curator: Karin Arink
Tekenkabinet (Manja v.d. Storm) Museum Purmerend
Amstelpark Hoge School Rotterdam presentatie Serie Zeefdrukken bij lancering nieuwe website Hoge School
Assignment ESL Erasmus School of Law Permanent Kunstobject (schilderwerk op glas)
WTC Contemporary Art fair: Gallery Hommes Groepstentoonstelling (Astrid de Pauw , Ralf Kokke, Ingrid Hoekstra)
Depot Rotterdam silkscreen
2016
Assignment: Multiple for Hoge School Rotterdam. Silkscreen series
2015
De Aanschouw Rotterdam
Galerie E.M./Emmy Miltenburg Schiedam
Pictura Dordrecht
Eightfold, internet galerie
Tekenkabinet Kunsthuis Amsterdam
Museum Waterland Purmerend
