Behind the rainbow Painting

The exuberant use of color is typical of the paintings by Cobie Visschers (1954), born in Beek (South Netherlands) and living in Breda. Originally, after her training in TeHaTex (Drawing, Handicraft, Textile), she mainly started working on fabrics as the basis for her large textile paintings. Techniques such as dyeing fabric, printing, painting, free embroidery and free machine work. This after she had built up a collection of fabrics for years and was fascinated by the intensity of the colours, shine, structures, prints and yarns from all over the world. This textile background can also be found in a number of acrylic or oil paintings. She combines various painting materials and sometimes fabrics and yarns in her paintings. Beautiful color areas combined with detailed details and always sparkling in her use of color. Her paintings are often exuberant in colour, shape and atmosphere. The work contains both figurative and abstract elements. The woman, flowers and birds often play an important role in the works. The female figures show a mixture of various influences from the world.