ME AND MY PAL by db Waterman

About "ME AND MY PAL"

by db Waterman

About the artwork

This artwork tells of a little girl walking on the beach and discovering her own shadow. She thinks it is her new friend.

I remember as a young girl I loved cutting pictures out of magazines to stick on my school diaries, books and even my bedroom door. Add to that the fascination I always had with walls with old posters, peeling paint, shoddy billboards and weathered paint. Completely unintentionally, I found a new way of working in which I feel comfortable and comfortable. What started as copying old walls with worn posters has grown into a large number of series with new visual stories. Not just eclecticism, but bringing together many seemingly disjointed storylines into a whole new story, my own personal story. Initially, there was one thing missing that is very important to me; the transparency that is normally only possible when using watercolour. The incessant layering of transparent watercolour is a challenge I did not want to miss, and after much trial and error, I finally succeeded in making the collages as transparent as a watercolour. Every layer of paper, oil, acrylic, pencil, crayon, biros, watercolour, ink, charcoal and everything else I use remains visible in the artwork. I spent my formative years as an artist at the Art Academy in Den Bosch. Nowadays, I consider myself self-taught and have developed my own style from the unconventional medium of collage.