My habitat series 5. Painting

Ars poetica Every morning offers something wonderful, so one must rise to discover where that wonder lies. About Edit Hermkens is an artist living and working in the Hungarian countryside. Her paintings are inspired by simple and everyday normalities, she brings forth these scenes with a playful twist of characters and bold colours using classical painting traditions. Edit is a world traveller, her paintings are inspired by personal experiences and her work offers a visionary escape from urban lifestyle. The characters displayed in her artwork, sometimes mimic the grotesque, where animal, humans and nature are crescendoed. There is humour and exaggeration displayed in the characters that offer a sense of excitement and movement to the artwork. Their role is to create joyfulness and ease the tension that lies within the painting. The playful and dramatic colours contrast the inner fears and anxieties of the artist. For Edit the creative process offers a sense of self-discovery, as during the journey of each piece there is the dialogue between painting and artist, and the underlying and unspoken fears of oneself arise. Inspired by the intricacies of the workings of nature, and by simply noticing, Edit dreams up a fantasy world. During the process of painting, she allows the everyday happenings of nature, bold characters and animals to enter these fantasy worlds. It is a journey into nature, where scenes evolve during the development of the artworks, where the end is only final when Edit puts down the paintbrush. Edit’s work is included in private collections internationally and displayed in public collections such as the Hungarian Museum of Agriculture in Budapest. Edit recently exhibited at the Art Market Budapest and she is represented by the Maggio Art Consultancy.