jessica gerritsen
3 artworks by jessica gerritsen.
Last artwork was added this month.
As a young girl, she won just about every drawing competition. The headteacher of her primary school would always pop into the classroom to look at her latest creations in her sketchbook. She inherited her love of art from her grandfather.
At 17, after finishing secondary school, she was unsure whether to go to art college or into social work. She chose the latter and discovered more and more how both worlds intersected. In her work as a therapist at her own practice, Vanuit Bezieling, she works on all levels of the human experience. Every emotion, every thought, every sensation is allowed to be there. She loves breaking patterns, transforming them, and creates endlessly in her sessions. It is no different in her art.
She enjoys beauty in all its facets. She loves to draw around the theme of ‘being human’ in its purest form. With all the feelings, thoughts and physical sensations that pass through. She draws with a special love for womanhood, an ode to being a woman. The systemic approach she favours in her practice is reflected in her art. She captures women in such a way that many deeper layers become visible. Her work ‘Heilig Naakt’ is a wonderful example of this.
A woman with courage, passion and strength.
With an incredible commitment to what she calls ‘love’.
An artist who loves beauty in all its facets.
Who likes to work with a touch of gold in her art.
This is how she views humanity.
Seeing the gold right through all the layers.
This is how she cr
