A girl paints large flowers on a wall. She wants to brighten up the gray, gray city with colorful graffiti. The work is constructed with different layers. First I create a background with pieces of text from magazines. This is the basis. Then I paint the colorful flowers on top of each other with acrylic paint. Then I make an ink…
Every artwork from Werk aan de Muur can be transformed into a beautiful photo print, printed on heavy satin photo paper of 260 grams.
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…
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