STATEMENT OF WORK

Artist Statement

The feminine identity is primarily reflected through me as a female painter. I always choose to come back paint, draw and reflect girls are living in and raised nowadays. The latter shows in my paintints, although may not always be visible. The strong powerful female energy goes ties with the situation we as women find ourselves in today.

When I think of the viewer looking at my paintings, I’m hoping for a bit of unfamiliaity compared to ones own experience and the lust to discover something outside ones own body and mind. I love to paint and construct different worlds, where and discover something new.

Last summer  when I started this series of paintings, was the hottest summer I remember. Everything was slow, melting. Dreaming of the summer, water and the ocean was a constant thought. I experienced a kind of paralysis dealing wiht the concret situation of climate change and heat. I ususally painting plein air in the summer, what wasn’t possible; so I moved everything in my downstairs living room, doors and blinders closed. I immediately felt trapped and glued to the house like generations of women before, but for totally different reasons.

My approach to my work goes through collecting images I find in the internet, drawing and enlarging them, copy parts and collage them as a preparation. Stepping into painting I’m not using the material but try to get an immediate beginning from memory. I often use a graphic - drawing like beginning to have some lines anchoring my feelings and ideas of the painting, deciding later about the use of colour.