Is fascinated by dance and dancers, from early youth.
She makes sketches in theatres of dance and opera. To name a few: ‘Nederlands Dans Theater, The Hague’, ‘Staatoper, Berlin’, ‘Scala, Milano’, and recently: ‘The Korsakov Conservatory, St.Petersburg’.
In the years 1991-1996 Jirí Kylián, artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater, has granted her the possibility of making sketches of dancers rehearsing choreographies.
She is inspired by the movements of the dancers, when a choreography is in a process of development, concentrating on the expressiveness of its motions.
In her oilpaintings she went through a period of abstract working in the eighties, composing ’symphonies of colour’, later she returned to figuration. She is primarily concerned about rendering a characteristic of human feelings.
Education: Royal Academy of Visual Arts, The Hague, 1977/81, autodidact.
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Education: Royal Academy of Visual Arts, The Hague, 1977/81, autodidact.