Mieke van Ingen (born 1962, Delft, the Netherlands) studied painting and graphic art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, the Netherlands. She lives and works in the Netherlands and in the South of France as a painter and a printmaker with a special interest in the cross over between the two disciplines.
Using motifs extracted from plants, water and clouds, Van Ingen incorporates these forms in her drawings, paintings and graphics with a painterly fluidity.
There is a division of horizontal and vertical lines; the same division which was highly emphasized by the members of The Style movement (De Stijl). For the members of this movement the belief in this division, originates in western theosophy; the vertical lines are the active element and the horizontal lines the passive elements; as both are the visual equivalents for the basic facts of life.
Van Ingen creates the contrast Piet Mondriaan, the movement’s leading figure, called for; fields of color created by horizontal and vertical volumes on the one hand and a clear poetic painting on the other hand. The use of water and earth colors, as much as the sensation that the works engage in construction and destruction -and create something new out of the void- all these are associated with obvious existorial issues.
It seem’s that Van Ingen’s work brings together both ends, modern and tradition, abstract and figurative, graphical and painterly. They form a continious effort to transcend knowledge and the techniques to the one’s hand to the traces of man’s search for truth and beauty on the other.

Website: Artiste contemporain, Mieke VAN INGEN

�Oversized� Women

The weather and seasons have a clear influence on the senses of humour of most people. Though the weather in the Netherlands is not always cause for happiness, the paintings of Suzan Wolters most certainly are.
When looking at the paintings of Suzan Wolters, the sky breaks open as laughing, sizable women in an atmosphere of sun, sea and beach give short shrift to any feeling of depression.
In combination with her good-humoured, chubby ladies, Suzan plays with the clich� that happy people and a vacation atmosphere give a positive feeling and joy in life.

Dutch citizen Suzan (1958) comes honestly by her creative talent. Her mother Niesje, as a young girl, was educated at a school for graphic design and later at the Art Academy. Her father, Max, also followed an education in graphics.
You could say it had been genetically determined. Suzan also started at a young age in modelling and painting. Suzan won various prizes with her modelling work at trade fairs in New York; her sculptures are popular in Japan, Australia, Russia, America and Europe.
Suzan’s work is filled with humour, joy and happiness and is very open as a result of that. For both her sculptures and her paintings Suzan consciously shows positive subjects, which has everything to do with Suzan�s outlook on life. Her preference for painting sizable figures is stylistically motivated and obviously a positive statement of their splendour. Suzan�s paintings celebrate the natural beauty and diversity of sizes and shapes. The chubby ladies are often accompanied by a cute looking dog.
�Adding a little dog is only natural; the dog brings emotion and movement into the painting. It is essential to me that a piece of art is a source of positive energy.
If someone looks at a painting and experiences the same sense of happiness that I experienced when painting it, then I have achieved my goal!�
Suzan paints with acrylic paint on canvas and is a fulltime artist and have been for the past 25 years.

A number of paintings are also offered in high-quality �Gicl�e Fine Art�.
This manner of reproduction makes it possible to hang a piece of art on your wall at an affordable price. It also serves as an alternative if the original piece of art has already been sold but you still want to have a reproduction. The reproduction is of museum quality and is printed on canvas in limited editions, assuring exclusivity.
Interested parties can contact Suzan Wolters.
E-mail: info@suzanwolters.com
Internet: www.suzanwolters.com
Tel: (0031) 578 628767

Website: Suzan Wolters
Contact email: info@suzanwolters.com