A little girl is having fun with her swing on a Wednesday afternoon. A free afternoon from school in the Netherlands. With the red color I wanted to reinforce the free and a bit cheeky character of the girl.
All my artworks are inspired by weathered walls with posters, peeling paint and all sorts of things in decline.
I try to…
Art on canvas looks great on any wall. It truly comes into its own with paintings featuring sharp brushstrokes.
I remembered that as a young girl I so much liked to cut images from magazines to paste them into school agendas, scrapbooks and even on my bedroom door. Add to this the fascination I always had for walls filled with old posters, flaking paint, scrappy billboards and weathered paint, it opened an unexpected door for completely new opportunities. Completely unintended I found a new way of working, I felt pleasurably and comfortably at home in. What started out as copying old…
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