Elise Klinkert

Artist statement:
In her work, Elise Klinkert (1967) examines her inextricable connection with nature on the one hand, and can lose herself with love and care in depicting the landscape, nature and the elements. On the other hand, she investigates how this all-overwhelming nature seems to be lost at the hands of man. Her paintings arise from a combination of different aspects: engagement, conversations, source research, a childhood memory or fragments of a dream. The people and animals that Elise paints are time travelers who try to evoke a feeling, a romantic longing for a better world, a life in connection and harmony, with each other and the universe. Her work asks questions about our society and the economic system that has grown out of all proportion, the loss of our interconnectedness, it asks questions about valuable and worthless. Elise wants to create a greater awareness around the vulnerability and preciousness of the surrounding environment.

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Bio:
Elise Klinkert is a Dutch painter who works and lives in the Netherlands. Her paintings are human and animal centred, sometimes combined with landscape. Her work is poetic. She creates magic realistic paintings, with a refined use of colour and composition.
Elise ...

1989 - 1997 | Travel period : research, self study | Belgium, Botswana, Germany, England, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibië, Austria, Scotland, Turkey, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zwitserland.

Solo exhibition
2022 | Solo exhibition Martiniziekenhuis | centrale hal | Groningen
2018 | Solo exhibition Refaja ziekenhuis | Stadskanaal
2016 | Solo exhibition UMCG | Groningen
2014 - heden | Solo exhibition Rikus | Eext

Group exhibition
2023 | De Lawei | Drachten
2022 | Kunst aan huis Lauwersland | open atelier route | Adorp
2022 | ‘Follow the blue line’ | kerk van Metslawier
2022 | Jubileum Culturele Commissie | Adorp, Sauwerd, Wetsinge
2021 | Online expositie ‘Visions of kindness’ | Joods museum | Moskou, Rusland
2020 | Kunst aan de Vaart | Assen
2017 | Galerie Noordvleugel | Veenklooster
2016 | Kerk | Adorp
2016 | Equus Film Festival | New York, Verenigde Staten
2012 | EM Galerie | Drachten
2010 | EM Galerie | Drachten
2004 | ‘Ja, ik wil’ , Kunstpaviljoen | Nieuw Roden
2002 | Kunstpaviljoen ‘No copy at home’ | Nieuw Roden
2000 | Noorderlicht | Filmhuis Leeuwarden