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My work is, of course, influenced by my Dutch heritage: Sunday afternoon family visits to the Rijksmuseum, flower fields and gardens. My first job as an 11 year old in a Dutch nursery started my passion for gardening. The Dutch have a saying: "Zeg het met bloemen" which translates into "Say it with flowers". I mainly paint and draw flowers . I am influenced by the flower drawings of Piet Mondriaan and Ellsworth Kelly and the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe. My latest fascination has been with the work of Hieronymus Bosch and painting the above as well as the below ground exploring the boundary between earth and air, light and dark as a metaphor (see "Emerging" series). In many of my drawings I apply layers of a water and bistre wash. ( Bistre is a pigment made from the burned shells of the walnut and was used extensively by the 17th cent. Dutch and Flemish artists). In my art I am interested in capturing the essence and energy of a place or a growing thing. My wish is to make the viewer stop and pay attention and experience beauty as a moment of respite. My flower images are not meant to be objects of exact botanical illustration or sentimental beauty bordering on kitsch, but metaphors for human life. In the bulb and roots, all the flower’s energy is stored to bring forth new life. For me these images are symbols of our connections, our human process, our endurance and growth through darkness into light and new life.
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Liedeke Bulder
Paintings, drawings, mixed media work, ltd. ed. artists prints and giclees on paper or canvas
Kalaheo Hawaii
EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS... (Emerson)
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