Roos Marthe Thijsen

As a Dutch artist in drawing and painting i am wondering.
To draw in the etch is one of my favourites.The inner source and research of nature and nudehumanity. "La condition humaine". A research in life and death and love life again is searching for existentialarchetypes and new values to come closer by the meaning of la condition humaine. Love life is like
a diary of drawings. A dialogue of empathy.That is why I paint with o.a.coffee.

The social drawings made of coffee, indian ink & bister and charcoal, are a reflection of how i see relations.
The materie coffee is interpreted as a connector between social relations.
In history we see coffee also as a product of human development and interrelationship.
How ever i see the pure basis colour and structure, as an underestimate, arte povera.
But it is just this primair material of the colour and smell of coffee, what give us a honest image of reality.

My own reality.
I realize it is a self-portrait.Portraiture to escape yourself but always to learn from your emotions and be one with your environment, your beloved ones.

The oilpaintings are mainly Human bodyworks with the titles as Mother , family, and new work a rosegarden. However i focuse and observate the inside...

Willem De Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Museum Delfshaven Rotterdam
Kunsthal Rotterdam
CODA Apeldoorn
Tekenkabinet
Museum Jan Cunen Oss
Het Kruithuis s'Hertogenbosch
Museum zonder Muren Eindhoven
The Big Draw
Drawing Center Diepenheim