I am a French/Dutch artist, who has been traveling and living as an expatriate for 30 years. Roots, identity and freedom are recurrent themes in my art. I feel as a citizen of the world and I am used to balancing my need for roots and my desire for freedom even if it is not always easy to do.
“The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.”
-Adam Gopnik (Paris to the Moon)
I paint in oils, as fearlessly and honestly as I can, about my world. As a mother of 3 daughters, a lot of my thinking nowadays, as well as my art, centers around womanhood and identity. I explore and question the deeply internalized social expectation we all carry as women, and the subtle and less subtle violence all women are subjected to every day.
This particular ongoing series of colorful figure paintings is meant to celebrate, but also to question, the fact that there is no right way to be a woman. Indeed we come in every beautiful color and flavor. Indeed we never can seem to get it right.”
