Artist’s Statement: "My fiber collages, paintings, watercolors and mixed media are figurative and linked. They all depict an imaginary universe wit landscapes, people, still-lives and dreams – radiating my love for people, beauty and life itself.

 

Born: Netherlands (1945) and came to the United States in 1974

Guy Harloff, a friend of the artist, describes her: "Never a reverent student, she seems, while within tradition, to be always on its satirical edge." He describes her work as "a feminine universe". "There is a great deal of poetry [and] a lot of love" abounding in her work: ‘Symbols from nature. The freedom and play …a mother’s still countenance and children’s bodies in motion… Archetype / paragon / paradigm - search for the ideal companion, never found but eternally sought. But no desperation and rebellion here. Phoenix - Just silent fortitude, acceptance of destiny, work as a positive transformer.’ "The monotype allows her to make at least one print and to edit it. Deceptive devices do not appear here. Only the hand, the artist’s sensibility and circumstances appear."

- Feminine mystique, femme fatales, Eternal Feminine - Persephone, Helen of Troy, Juno/Hera, Joan of Arc

Exhibits (1995 to present): 2000 The Artful Deposit, Bordentown 2000 Bergen op Zoom

1999 Plainsboro Library 1997 Ruth Morpeth Gallery 1997 Bergen op Zoom, Holland

1996 Medical Center at Princeton 1996 Medical Center at Princeton - Merwick Unit 1995 Presbyterian Church - Princeton

Pre-1995: First show was in 1975 at the Princeton Gallery 100 - one woman show in fiber art followed by Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1978 and Bergen Op Zoom in 1979. Monotype shows began abroad in 1982 at Nymegen, Netherlands and Palazzo Sormen, Milan, Italy.

She’s no newcomer to The Artful Deposit, Allentown - 1986 mixed media, 1988 group show (1991-1994) and is considered part of the "stable of artists" that comprise the galleries’ strengths.