Birgit Gerritsen

I'm a Dutch artist living and working in Andalusia Spain since 12,5 years. I've studied at the art school in Holland, in Utrecht and in Arnhem.

About my art:
My DREAMSCAPES are formed by dreams, thoughts and the visual information that is fired at us every day.

I create these DREAMSCAPES in my 'visual diary', on large paper or on canvas using mixed media: collage technique, by painting and drawing with pastel chalk.
Textures, structures and layers are created, it is an organic process.

The landscapes grow through layers of images, shapes and structures from the visual material that I encounter through various media. I use photos of film and TV stills, images and texts from magazines and newspapers, but also plastic waste and organic material that I find. .

As a visually oriented person, I am both stimulated and overwhelmed by visual pollution and I feel the need to process, transform and translate this bulk of image information and materials that I find into a virtual landscape.

Initially, in my formal works, figures played the leading role, but more and more collages take the form of landscapes that become more abstract and the figures disappear into the background and merge into larger forms and these forms merge with each ...

1988-1991 Fashion school, Arnhem-Holland

1991-1996 Artschool, First Degree Artteacher, HKU & HKA, Arnhem and Utrecht-Holland

1994-1995 Artschool Madrid/Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2004 Course B.I.K. (Beeldend kunstenaar In de Klas/Artist in the Classroom)

2020/2021 - Mar sin Plastico - Project about the plastic waist of the greenhouses in the South of Spain, Holland and Spain (Nijar-Almería)

2019 - Pop Up groupexhibition 'De Warme Salon' ('The Warm Salon'), Erotic art -Nijmegen,           Holland

2016 – Art Day - Málaga, Spain

2015 – Art Day - Málaga, Spain

2014 – Hotel/restaurant ‘Ruimzicht’ – Doetinchem, Holland

2012 – ‘White Rabbit’ Notre Dame des Arts – Ubbergen, Holland

2008 – Kunstmarkt – Wageningen, Holland

2008 – A’part presentaties – Nijmegen, Holland

2007 – Galerie Voltaire – Den Bosch, Holland

2006 – B-Art, Bank van Leening – Den Bosch, Holland

2005 – Kunstwerk-Nijmegen, Holland

2003 – Galeria Magenta – Nijmegen, Holland

2003 – Kunstmanifestatie – Lisse, Holland

2002 – KUN B-faculteit – Nijmegen, Holland

2001 – kerkje Persingen, Holland

2000 – Galerie Magenta – Nijmegen, Holland

1999 – kerkje Persingen, Holland

1996 – Gruitpoort – Doetinchem, Holland

1995 – KUN – Nijmegen, Holland