Spécialement conçu pour le 10e anniversaire de Werkaandemuur ! J'ai peint pour cela avec les tr

Specially made for the 10th anniversary of Werkaandemuur! I painted for this with the three colours that Werkaandemuur itself uses on its website.
A young girl dancing and enjoying the swing of her white dress. The balloon symbolises the birthday of Werkaandemuur.
She is completely absorbed in her dance. The pieces that are left out of her dress symbolise that she is completely absorbed in her surroundings.

The original artwork is made with acrylic paint on paper, 63 x 48 cm

This artwork is offered by db Waterman

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 walls with worn out posters has grown into many series of new visual storytelling. Not simply just eclecticism, but bringing together many seemingly incoherent story lines into one completely new story, my own personal story. Initially it lacked the one thing that is important to me, the transparency that normally only is possible with the use of watercolor. The unforgiving layering of transparent watercolors is a challenge I would not want to miss and after a lot of trial and error I finally succeeded in getting the collages as transparent as a watercolor. Every layer of paper, oil, acrylic, pencil, crayon, ballpoint, watercolor, ink, charcoal and whatever else I use, remains visible in the artwork. You can imagine it made me feel the queen of the ball !

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