About Tiara Kroes

NL/ENG
Tiara Kroes is a visual artist, creator and writer. She works from her studio and has a background in graphic design, a discipline that has shaped her sense of composition, colour and rhythm.

In her independent work, she uses this knowledge primarily as a means of letting go. An image emerges during the creative process, layer by layer, and is allowed to take a different direction along the way than she had originally envisaged. In this way, her work moves between figuration and abstraction.

Nature is her primary source of inspiration: how things grow, wear away, repeat themselves and change shape. Spirituality, philosophy and the search for meaning run through it all. Her work stems from questions about what it means to be human, and how we give meaning to what we experience. She is also familiar with this focus on what lies beneath the surface from over twenty years of working with people.

She calls it ‘the art of seeing differently’: not taking the first impression as the whole story, and continuing to look until an image reveals more.

ENGLISH
Tiara Kroes is a visual artist, maker and writer with a background in graphic design. In her studio she works intuitively, layer by layer, letting an image find its own direction. Her work moves between figuration and abstraction. Nature is her main source of inspiration: how things grow, wear and change form. Spirituality, philosophy and the search for meaning run through her work, informed by more than twenty