Archive (1989 - ongoing)
03 Finding Form/
Paintings
“Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.” – Niki De Saint Phalle (Guggenheim Bilbao)
Story
Painting has been a part of my life for as long as I remember. After secondary school, I wavered between going to art school or university. I chose the latter, making a promise to myself to never stop painting – and I didn’t.
Along the way, I experimented with different media like oil paint, watercolours and acrylics but also with children’s window paint. With this sticky material I would make prints, and prints of prints until the paint dried up, and then collages of all these prints. I was fascinated by seemingly duplicate and mirror images that are never quite the same as the original, a theme I would return to with my jewellery many years later, especially with Breaking the Waves jewels.
At the time my inspirations seemed quite random, from headline news and abstract shapes to the human form, especially of dancers. Nowadays I mainly paint to explore forms and just for fun!
Form
The paintings I share here, are the ones that are relevant to my three-dimensional work in terms of form and texture, ranging from abstract to human forms. They’re organised chronologically and the older ones are grouped together in collages. Sometimes I go through my folders of old paintings and an image that I made decades ago inspires a piece of jewellery or an object now. I have added a few pictures to show these ‘translations’.
Technique
Experimental! From basic wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry water-colouring to linocutting and transfer printing.
Material
Mostly traditional watercolour and acrylic paints but also experimenting with e.g. window paint and flower pigments.
“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.” – Pablo Picasso (Life with Picasso, Francois Gilot and Carlton Lake, 1964)
03 Finding Form/
Paintings
“Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.” – Niki De Saint Phalle (Guggenheim Bilbao)
Story
Painting has been a part of my life for as long as I remember. After secondary school, I wavered between going to art school or university. I chose the latter, making a promise to myself to never stop painting – and I didn’t.
Along the way, I experimented with different media like oil paint, watercolours and acrylics but also with children’s window paint. With this sticky material I would make prints, and prints of prints until the paint dried up, and then collages of all these prints. I was fascinated by seemingly duplicate and mirror images that are never quite the same as the original, a theme I would return to with my jewellery many years later, especially with Breaking the Waves jewels.
At the time my inspirations seemed quite random, from headline news and abstract shapes to the human form, especially of dancers. Nowadays I mainly paint to explore forms and just for fun!
Form
The paintings I share here, are the ones that are relevant to my three-dimensional work in terms of form and texture, ranging from abstract to human forms. They’re organised chronologically and the older ones are grouped together in collages. Sometimes I go through my folders of old paintings and an image that I made decades ago inspires a piece of jewellery or an object now. I have added a few pictures to show these ‘translations’.
Technique
Experimental! From basic wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry water-colouring to linocutting and transfer printing.
Material
Mostly traditional watercolour and acrylic paints but also experimenting with e.g. window paint and flower pigments.
“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.” – Pablo Picasso (Life with Picasso, Francois Gilot and Carlton Lake, 1964)
03 Finding Form/
