'Lavender is Blue' - Woman made of wire

Lavender is Blue, a figurative abstract work made from black thread and acrylic.

Kim Rijntjes presents contemporary portraits of women in a way that is rarely seen: she does not freeze a face in place; she allows it to move, almost to breathe. She constructs a face from threads, charcoal & kleur. Draden breken & dwalen over het oppervlak. Haar gekozen medium is ongewoon. Waar de meeste kunstenaars naar potlood of penseel grijpen om een omtrek neer te zetten, grijpt Kim naar draad.
 Met borduren, zowel machinaal als met de hand, laat ze de geborduurde lijn het tekenen doen. Expressionistische portretten & —minimalist line drawings caught between sensuality, strength and vulnerability—three qualities that are normally kept separate, yet here compressed into a single image. The threads are pulled loose, rearranged, never forced into neatness. And the titles are deliberately left open-ended, because she does not want to tell you what to feel. Everything in her work refuses to stay still; that tension, held within a single frame: emotions, expression & line work.
Through her embroidered portraits, she aims to represent all races, as a symbol of global connection and human unity. A face that remains so open no longer belongs to a single person but to everyone who looks at it. She works from Atelier-Galerie MIM in Aardenburg, a historic building in the far south-west of Zeeland.

www.kimrijntjes.com