"Model in the WATER lise Marin IV" Painting

‘ To capture a personality is one of the best things to do’

Painting of a splendid portrait has according Anke all to do with emotions.
A technical perfect portrait without expression and emotion she considers as an empty portrait.
To capture someone’s personality is what its all about “I’d like to show how a person really is and affected. To achieve this i’ll use all emotion, I always paint what I see and what I feel for the person I portray, and that always strongly intuitive.
I work disengaged and loosely and I dare to experiment and thinking outside of the box without losing out of sight the power of expression.

Anke Wijnia, august 1971, was born in Balk a small village in the Frisian county in the Netherlands
Since her early days she was attracted to painting drawing and designs. She started as an interior designer but she rapidly moved to her greatest passion. It turned out that she had a huge natural talent. Starting with sketching she rapidly gained a lot of clients. She decided to make portraits and there all her talents where revealed. Nowadays Anke’s work can be described as omnifarious and contains sketching, portraits, models and free work. As well she’s transferring knowledge to passionate amateurs by the many art lessons and workshops she is carrying out.
Her work is not unnoticed, witness the number of applications for exhibitions across Europe and the Far East.

‘ It always starts with a white canvas……’

Anke is well known for her fast trait, the use of multi layers and warm colours. Her work originates (mostly) from that substratum and she merges all the emotions and feelings. Special of hers is that the eyes really reveal the character of the person she’s painting.