Maandag Wasdag series | untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 100 x 60 cm available on request
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 100 x 60 cm available on request
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 100 x 60 cm available
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 100 x 60 cm sold
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 100 x 60 cm sold
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 30 x 21 cm sold
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 30 x 21 cm sold
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 30 x 21 cm available
untitled 2017 casein on linen 30 x 21 cm available on request
untitled 2017 casein on linen 30 x 21 cm available on request
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 170 x 70 cm available on request
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 170 x 70 cm available on request
exhibition view city museum harderwijk netherlands
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 15x 15 x 15 cm sold
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 15 x 15 cm sold
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 15 x15 cm sold
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 15 x15 cm sold
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 15 x15 cm sold
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 28 x18 cm sold
untitled 2016 egg-tempera on linen 28 x18 cm sold
Maandag Wasdag series
I draw inspiration from the journeys I make, but I also find my subjects close to home. Like I did for the Maandag Wasdag series.
These egg-tempera paintings on linnen are part of the Maandag Wasdag project. I developed the project especially, after returning to my childhood home (2013-2020); a farmhouse in the Noordoostpolder (Northeast Polder). The project was first exhibited in Museum Schokland on the former Zuiderzee island in the Noordoostpolder. Maandag Wasdag was subsequently exhibited in two cities along the former Zuiderzee, the City Museum Harderwijk and the Museum Elburg.
I grew up in the Noordoostpolder, where my grandparents settled themselves as pioneers. When I started looking into the history of the Noordoostpolder, I discovered old photographs of women in the Noordoostpolder, dressed in the costume of the region where they originally came from. It intrigued me that these women held on to their traditional clothing, despite the fact that they had started a new life in the polder: regional dress as an expression of identity, and as something familiar in an unknown world. In time they let go of the costume and other traditions and customs taken from their place of origin. And with that, the corresponding structure also disappeared. The latter explains the title of this project: Maandag Wasdag.
I paint women in regional dress on the basis of old photographs, isolated from their everyday environment. Through the use of egg-tempera in transparent layers, and by a very sober use of color, the atmosphere of bygone times is created. Sometimes the clothes seem to stand on their own, as if the wearer herself has disappeared. It is a subtle game of presence and absence. The sharp contours of the clothes resulting from the use of templates suggest a restriction on movement, reminiscent of a corset.