Exhibitions
The Return
The Return presents a new series of paintings by Ineke Van der Wal after five years spend in The Wasteland
The paintings in this new body of work 'The Return' exhibit in themselves a challenge and they can not be easily dismissed neither in their embodiment or presence . They are not completely abstract nor figurative, but they are suggestive of both.
Whilst the strong intense layered colours, depths of surfaces with dark and light spaces, can compel to go deeper and deeper into the painting. They also propose to step back and to entice you to stand still, reflect and contemplate.
The paintings could be suggestive of landscapes and they could be suggestive of portraits.
At times fragmented and disjointed, the visuality of the work reflects and suggests the process of coming to terms with the past and the memories of a past which has been lost, yearned for and found again but with a different kind of body.
'The Return' paintings bring with them an air of wishful thinking and melancholy, whilst at the same time rendering a sense of abrupt confrontation.
A consistent theme, which has been present and of great influence throughout my working practise are not only the acknowledgment to memories in time and of places, but also the connection, which is felt and reflected upon in an abstracted visualisation of the beauty of words and in particular poetry where Virginia Woolf , Shakespeare and most of all the words of T.S. Eliot will never leave me.
Whilst the strong intense layered colours, depths of surfaces with dark and light spaces, can compel to go deeper and deeper into the painting. They also propose to step back and to entice you to stand still, reflect and contemplate.
The paintings could be suggestive of landscapes and they could be suggestive of portraits.
At times fragmented and disjointed, the visuality of the work reflects and suggests the process of coming to terms with the past and the memories of a past which has been lost, yearned for and found again but with a different kind of body.
'The Return' paintings bring with them an air of wishful thinking and melancholy, whilst at the same time rendering a sense of abrupt confrontation.
A consistent theme, which has been present and of great influence throughout my working practise are not only the acknowledgment to memories in time and of places, but also the connection, which is felt and reflected upon in an abstracted visualisation of the beauty of words and in particular poetry where Virginia Woolf , Shakespeare and most of all the words of T.S. Eliot will never leave me.
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