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Leontien van Kraay (Zeist,The Netherlands, 1979)

 

Fascination for nature is the inspiration for my paintings. I am especially interested in moulds, because of their very fine structures. A mould grows and vegetates in various patterns and shapes. You never know in which size, shape or direction it will grow.

Even the colour of a mould changes during the growing process, sometimes it develops into very intense colours.

 

That is the way I develop my paintings. In advance I don’t know in which way or shape the painting will raise and show up. The way I make my paintings is quite inscrutable; because I depend on the materials I work with. I have been experimenting a long time to develop the right techniques to approach the desired results. I hardly use brushes, but I use injection needles, liquids (wet in wet techniques), lacquers and other materials. The way I make my paintings is a process in which the paint and liquids repulse, or flow off; the shape will brew, flourish, and increase until the contrasts develop. I create details with the needles but I am depending on chance. Sometimes the liquids will flow out of the canvas, or flow in an opposite direction… I never know exactly how it’s going to be, but I am manipulating the process by intervening. I transmit the liquids to compose a good shape.

 

The colour is very essential: I am looking for colours to express, to make a difference in front- and backside. Which colours attract each other, which colours repulse?

“Looking at her paintings is like the experience of flying low above the surface of a strange planet” Geert van den Bos (2003).

 

Thank you for paying attention to my work