"cats watching van goghs starry night" Painting

Escha van den Bogerd (1972) was born in The Hague, Holland where she attended the Rudolf Steiner school, a school with many art subjects including painting, drawing and art history.<br>After leaving school Escha followed several art courses around Europe, including Florence, Italy, Salzburg, Austria and her home country Holland.<br><br>Escha uses a method of painting in which abstraction and figurative images combine and reinforce each other's effect.<br><br>Its a refreshing combination of traditional figurative painting in a contemporary style influenced by the many countries she has visited.<br><br>Her main inspiration comes from the old masters that create a beautiful sense of light in their work and places such as Venice, Florence, and the Middle East.<br>She is an artist of exceptional intensity whose dynamic and poetic abstraction faces and figurative display profound sensitivity and a great emotional power.<br>Vital in attack and detail and brilliant in colour her energetically composed acrylic paintings radiate an aura of spirituality, which suggests the Middle East and Italian influences, although their formal characteristics are wholly in the contemporary European tradition.<br><br>Her nudes combine figurative and abstract elements and use vibrancy and great emotional power with femininity and sensitivity.<br>Its a refreshing combination of traditional figurative painting in a contemporary style influenced by the many countries she has visited.<br><br>