IAMSTERDAM Painting

Yvette Ten-Bohmer b 1988; Sydney Australia. Tutor at Sydney Art Space including Life Drawing, printmaking, and experimental drawing. Drawing was a part of me as much as walking was when I was an infant. The act of drawing to me; was an action which captured life itself within my spontanious marks and gestures. Drawing is an inquisitive expression. My Great Grandfather noticed my talent before I was 6; He was an artist and gave me his much anticipated Masterpeice on his death bed. I didn't know what 'Art' was. I only drew from my heart and also watched cartoons on Telle. My High School art teacher introduced the notion and concept of "Art School" to me. "WoW! I thought; does art school exist!? It does. 5 years later I completed my Advanced Diploma of Fine Art at Newcastle art school with a majority of High Distinctions. This can't be it! I was too young; hadn't experienced anything yet! I want to learn more. My Teacher mentioned "The National Art School" to which I found my spirit drawn to this notion like a magnet. I wanted more. Sydney was this big wild planet to me, and I wanted in. I moved to the City, got accepted half way through the Degree of Fine Arts at the National Art School with my previous acheivments. Sydney was exciting. But lonely, cold and expensive. All in good timing though. I met amazing friends and in 2011; I Won the John Olsen prize for Life Drawing. Now living and working in my studio on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Statement: A celebration of human existance. I explore the figure considering angles, motions, shadows, weight, line and anatomy. I pursue the limbs of the human form with distortion to alude to the energy and action rather than the true realism of the pose. Capturing and expressing human life with gestural marks created by observation using feeling derived by visual sensation; enables a raw expressive mark entwining and forming into the figure. Thus I pursue and celebrate the beauty of the human form al the while capturing our emotions that is conveyed through the lyrical motions throughout the body.