Gems in nature Painting

The exuberant use of color and her intuitively works are typical of the paintings by Cobie Visschers. Originally, after her training in TeHaTex (Drawing, Handicraft, Textile), she mainly started working painting on fabrics as the basis for her large textile paintings. Techniques such as dyeing fabric, printing, painting, embroidery and 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. On this moment she works with acrylic and mixed media. This textile background can also be found in a number of acrylicpaintings. She combines various painting materials and sometimes fabrics and yarns in her paintings. Beautiful color areas combined with 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. The amount of elements and details makes you discover something new in the artwork everytime you look at it.