About the Artist
My work contains mixed media: photography, sanding, painting, embroidery and textiles.
I’m interested in the idea of revealing, by hiding (sanding) parts of a picture.
Through my work I want to express my view on life and my search for meaning and ways to deal with it.
Imperfection, solitude, vulnerability, mortality, transformation and transience are returning themes in my work. I’m interested in representing the inner life and emotions of a person.
After the sanding process I reconstruct the image slowly by hand. I want to show the contrast between aggressive, fast media and sensitive, slow media.
With needlework I repair the canvas and create a new layer and relief on the image. By this I want to refer to almost forgotten crafts, like the dedicated nuns who embroidered in silence and solitude on mystical cloths.
In my latest work I’m combining classical nude-poses with modern photography.With these works I want to refer to the romantic period of art, but with a more modern and critical ap
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