Cold Hope Painting

Cold Hope is a painting that at first sight seems a black and white work but when taking a second and better looks, colors are hiding behind the black and white It is a poetic calm landscape. Nature as a theme is only a handheld that still seems needed. The paintings “grow” slowly in her atelier. The canvasses are flat on the floor, so that she is able to work wet-in-wet, and with strongly diluted paint. Big puddles of acrylic paint are poured out over oil painted parts, parts are being wiped of and other parts are being given extra attention by new layers of paint. During this experimenting with materials memories come above, but the actual action in the atelier is always stronger at that moment ! Colour, composition and light are of great importance for van Broekhoven. There must always be light in the work...as if the transparancy of the paint is still passing light...as if the sun is somewhere hiding in the painting!– Most of the works have great layering. Various “failures” are hidden under the upper layers of paint. This often frustrates during the making of a painting, but in the final result these failures are necessary, they provide depth. Painting in this way is an elusive process and at the same time it’s a well-considered process in which great concentration and alertness is necessary. Because their are no sketches in advance, it’s all happening right in front of her, and there it is to be captured….