'The Fifties' - Audrey Hepburn Painting

Jole (Annejole Jacobs-de Jongh - 1964) is a dutch painter from Rotterdam. She makes modern portraits of people, things and theme’s by assignment or as free work. The different series of portraits are mixed media, painted on a printed background consisting of manipulated images from art history, printed media, advertising, texts, pictures and clothing fabrics. With the background of the painting she gives information in an unexpected way about the person, thing of theme that is portrayed. In her work Jole is inspired by the environment around her, nature, what goes on in people, by events in the news and on social media, by history and by different cultures, countries and cities.