Mixed media: watercolor, ink, pastel chalk. Landscape with pine trees against the backdrop of mountains and sky with the poem:
in this splattered land where with sinuous stroke
the striped branches provide a trunk
I look down on a valley with distant lines
of hills that softly show
I dream myself into a Japanese print
spots sweep the sky
Blue hits me with sounds
And I know I've arrived
A beautiful still work built up layer by layer.
Catharina Mastenbroek (Amsterdam, 02-10-1965) is a visual artist. She lives and works in Amstelveen (Netherlands). Started as a sculptor she now makes two-dimensional work in the techniques watercolour, pastel, charcoal, pencil and collage. Tone, colour and form, that's what my work is all about,.. Read more…