Mathilde Painting

This painting is made in honor of Mathilde Willink. A Dutch woman and the wife and muse of the painter Carel Willink. It will be shown in an exhibition on the date that she would have been 80 years (7-7-2018), in her birth town Terneuzen in the Netherlands. My painting 'Mathilde' is the fourth canvas in the series 'Demoiselles Mondiale'. The series shows strong women, painted on large, loose canvases, inspired by my travels, encounters, art that touches me and my own feminine strength. Mathilde Willink, the muse of the famous Dutch painter Carel Willink and the one who wore the dresses of the Dutch-Chinese designer Fong Leng with great flair, is portrayed as the sparkling, eccentric, adventurous woman she was. I have dressed her in an own conceived, swirling dress, complemented by the lace cap and the red coral necklace with golden knot from the costume that was traditionally worn in Terneuzen. I placed her in an abstract landscape from her birthground, with the river Schelde in the background. Above the slightly undulating water are the Dutch skies with their eternal play of clouds, sun and rainstorms; alternations in the weather that reflect the life of Mathilde. Painting this canvas felt like an adventure, and I needed some guts, especially for the smashing swipe over her dress. And that's the way it should be, the person Mathilde, whom I now know a bit as a crazy, but sympathetic and smart woman, has to be felt in my canvas.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 70.9 H x 0.4 D in

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