about me as an artist
I studied to become an architect, so I seriously started drawing in black and white (pencil and ink) when I was about 14.
I loved it.
I also was completely and madly in love with the technical drawing and the precision of geometrics.
At the same time, I felt the need to draw something other than what was "ordered."
But, because there was so much to draw for my studies and, later, work, I found it difficult to start.
I always loved to have that big white paper before me, as a little Big Bang, before I'd lay down the first line. At that time, it was easier for me to write than to make art.
I'd finished the university and started my first job as an architect. I was working enormously long hours, which is when it really started: on a tiny corner of a drawing I had to finish for the building site. I just let the pencil go its way, and the first drawn friends started to appear. In the beginning, they were a bit monstrous and disorganized.
For years, I drew in pencil and very small, as I did not really let myself be an artist because of all the limited beliefs I grew up with. My deep and, at that time, a hidden passion for color expressed itself through my collecting bits of colored paper and colored pencils. Then, one day, I was playing with colored paper and tearing it apart. It fell on a white paper, and I immediately saw something I had not seen before. That is how my first collage started.
I then made a series of 5 and gave them to different people as a present. At that time, I was not yet aware that I could hold on to them by taking pictures of them, so I do not have them to show, but they were my starting point with color, and they remain in my heart as my first hundred percent inspiration moment.
The next step was introducing one color in my black and white. It was a great red or a beautiful blue. My drawings were still small.
I started working again very much, and I traveled a lot, so the only spare time I had I spent sleeping:-) This was a time of immense creativity as an architect, so my need to draw went sleeping, only to wake up a few years later. When I started again, lots of colors took hold of me. In this new beginning, I was like a crazy spider (you know, after you tear apart their first three webs in that one place, there is nothing organized in their construction anymore), putting everything together in one painting because of my desperation to express all the things bottled inside, at once. I was at the time at the beginning of a burn-out, which turned out to be long and heavy, so putting things on paper felt, at the time, more like making graves for all the pain. Soon enough, though, some light began to appear on the paper, and it felt good to be able to see that light in my drawings, even before I could feel it in my everyday life.
Since then, I grew (up) in my being an artist, and I allowed myself to study and explore more and more artistic avenues. I am in love with making all kinds of art. I am inspired by many things. I am an Explorer, and every new material I encounter transforms into a new inspiration. I cannot and will not put myself into one category: everything touches and inspires me, and everything I touch can be transformed into art.
I have a few favorite directions at the moment of this writing, and at all times, and I feel that (as in "real life") these directions will merge on a solid, broad road to travel for me in my art.
Or not :-)
Thank you for taking the time to read about my journey, and I hope that I can inspire and take you along in my love for color and life.
Should you be moved to want to purchase my art, please go to www.shiningmama.com or, should you not find your desired piece there, please write to me at [email protected] to inquire.
I loved it.
I also was completely and madly in love with the technical drawing and the precision of geometrics.
At the same time, I felt the need to draw something other than what was "ordered."
But, because there was so much to draw for my studies and, later, work, I found it difficult to start.
I always loved to have that big white paper before me, as a little Big Bang, before I'd lay down the first line. At that time, it was easier for me to write than to make art.
I'd finished the university and started my first job as an architect. I was working enormously long hours, which is when it really started: on a tiny corner of a drawing I had to finish for the building site. I just let the pencil go its way, and the first drawn friends started to appear. In the beginning, they were a bit monstrous and disorganized.
For years, I drew in pencil and very small, as I did not really let myself be an artist because of all the limited beliefs I grew up with. My deep and, at that time, a hidden passion for color expressed itself through my collecting bits of colored paper and colored pencils. Then, one day, I was playing with colored paper and tearing it apart. It fell on a white paper, and I immediately saw something I had not seen before. That is how my first collage started.
I then made a series of 5 and gave them to different people as a present. At that time, I was not yet aware that I could hold on to them by taking pictures of them, so I do not have them to show, but they were my starting point with color, and they remain in my heart as my first hundred percent inspiration moment.
The next step was introducing one color in my black and white. It was a great red or a beautiful blue. My drawings were still small.
I started working again very much, and I traveled a lot, so the only spare time I had I spent sleeping:-) This was a time of immense creativity as an architect, so my need to draw went sleeping, only to wake up a few years later. When I started again, lots of colors took hold of me. In this new beginning, I was like a crazy spider (you know, after you tear apart their first three webs in that one place, there is nothing organized in their construction anymore), putting everything together in one painting because of my desperation to express all the things bottled inside, at once. I was at the time at the beginning of a burn-out, which turned out to be long and heavy, so putting things on paper felt, at the time, more like making graves for all the pain. Soon enough, though, some light began to appear on the paper, and it felt good to be able to see that light in my drawings, even before I could feel it in my everyday life.
Since then, I grew (up) in my being an artist, and I allowed myself to study and explore more and more artistic avenues. I am in love with making all kinds of art. I am inspired by many things. I am an Explorer, and every new material I encounter transforms into a new inspiration. I cannot and will not put myself into one category: everything touches and inspires me, and everything I touch can be transformed into art.
I have a few favorite directions at the moment of this writing, and at all times, and I feel that (as in "real life") these directions will merge on a solid, broad road to travel for me in my art.
Or not :-)
Thank you for taking the time to read about my journey, and I hope that I can inspire and take you along in my love for color and life.
Should you be moved to want to purchase my art, please go to www.shiningmama.com or, should you not find your desired piece there, please write to me at [email protected] to inquire.