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Agave #2 | Jacqueline Wouters
Agave #2 | Jacqueline Wouters
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Jacqueline Wouters | Agave #2 | 50cm x 60cm | Framed in a wooden wenge frame (dark brown)
We recommend that you come and view an original painting if you are interested and if possible.
About the artist
Inspiration
Jacqueline Wouters was born in Mijdrecht. As a child she played a lot outside in nature but also on the property of her grandfather, who had a demolition company and a steel company. The company specialized in making industrial loading platforms and containers etc.
She played a lot in the large shed containing stored cortez steel beams, pipes, barrels, and a lot of demolition material from old houses, factories, and also from an old station in Mijdrecht.
Jacqueline loves the direct geometric shapes of steel pipes, chains, iron beams, barrels, wheels, tires, etc. She is also fascinated by the architecture of factory buildings. The high pipes, the play of lines. The division of surfaces.
Asia
In recent years Jacqueline has traveled extensively through Asia. She practices yoga, meditation and chi gong, and is therefore looking for harmony and beauty, the aesthetic, the simplicity.
Her sources of inspiration are the simplicity of Asian artworks, Japanese prints, calligraphy. The Japanese language of shapes/patterns. The Asian way of working, from meditation and concentration. The Zen idea behind these works, the directness, brush, brush use, the craftsmanship, spirituality, the lightness, layering, the meditative, the cosmos, nature. In Zen a form is really a form, all that is superfluous is left out.
She wants to give the clear geometric shapes a new experience, a transformation, from the simplicity of the Asian way of working. Painting as meditation, a journey inward. Ultimately, everything is energy, which is converted into matter, including industrial forms.
Her work
The work is 2-dimensional and is constructed from geometric shapes/objects such as circles, ovals, lines, tubes, spheres. These shapes can be open or closed, industrial or organic.
The work is rhythmic, modest and has an expressive or graphic character. Jacqueline works with acrylic and oil paint, but usually the first layer is acrylic or watercolor.
While painting she searches for contrasts: the use of color is from sober to very colorful, the paint can be opaque or very transparent, glossy or matt. But also soft lines versus clear, tight shapes. The size is small to average.
Method
Jacqueline makes sketches on paper in advance, or uses her own photos of various abstract shapes and tubes. She cuts pictures from magazines with certain patterns, rhythms. With these ingredients she makes a composition and determines the use of color. Jacqueline then starts on MDF or canvas with the 1st layer. Then a 2nd layer . What happens when you apply a transparent layer over a thick layer of paint. What is the effect of colors next to or on top of each other. Sometimes beautiful shapes and residual shapes arise by chance.
The use of stencils ensures that the shapes remain clear and tight. Jacqueline uses acrylic because it dries quickly, oil paint as a 2nd layer because it has a nice color, and to easily make "flowing" movements/shapes. To let one color flow into the other and watercolor because it is transparent, and as a contrast (thin, transparent)
The constants that keep coming back are the abstract forms such as circles, ovals, tubes, lines). In her work you never see a horizon.
