red dots Painting

Ping Frederiks was born in Nijverdal, Netherlands. After graduating from the Academy in Apeldoorn "Fotovakschool", followed a four-year stay in Seville, Spain. In 1993, she returned to the Netherlands and opened a Studio and Gallery in the city of Hengelo. After some years, she returned to her hometown Nijverdal and worked as a freelance artist, photograher, window dresser and wall painter, she taught art to children and adults at the folk high school. In addition, ping was working as a makeup artist in theaters and opera houses. In 2008, ping won the prize in the category "painting", at the International Art Symposium "Atelier an der Donau" in Pöchlarn, Austria. For personal reasons she moved in 2009 to Pöchlarn and took over the artistic direction of the symposium for 8 years, together with Atanas Kolev. In 2017 Ping returned to the Netherlands. Ping is a member of the Group of Dutch artists Nijverdal and since 2011 member of the "Union Plovdiv artists" in Bulgaria. She participated in numerous exhibitions in many European countries. Ping lives and works as a freelance artist in Pöchlarn, Austria PING FREDERIKS: "Her art speaks and moves ..." Our time is dominated by Visual media. Impressions from television, Internet and newspapers. Pictures of the media have strong influence on the way how we people handle each other and the world around us. Ping Frederiks deals in their work with these effects on us humans, in particular on women. She observes the psychological, social, and political aspects of our media-dominated age and she does not look away for controversial topics. Ping surches for the relationships between people and transmits all this with a tremendous immediacy and expressiveness in her pictures. Her intense, emotionally charged paintings and drawings speak with us and they move us. Participation in symposia, workshops, and biennials 2007 - Spirit d’arte, Ferrara, Italy. 2008 - „Atelier an der Donau“, Pöchlarn, Austria. 2009 - Zlatyu Boyadjiev, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Price Awards Award of honour in the category Painting, „Atelier an der Donau“, Pöchlarn, Austria 2008 Works in museums and public collections Kart Plaza, Nijverdal, Netherlands.