Forbidden City Print

The image shows a father and child the area around them is not visible. I started making this painting inspired by the pollution in China and India. I finished this painting during the Corona epidemic.
 The painting is made with acrylic paint medium pigments and plastic lettering. The inspiration of this painting is a desire to be free and escaping from daily life, people try to find places to breathe freely in forgotten spaces in the city. The image shows a contemporary fairy tale in the surreal world of the man-made city. ABOUT the artist her work: Hester van Dapperen explores new ways, she uses the refined and raw material in layers of which the artwork consists, instead of hiding the materials below the surface of the image, all materials are visibly used. She paints human figures in motion as a reflection of modern contemporary life. 
Her inspiration she finds nearby her painting studio, in Amsterdam. The paintings are often made with textile insertions , like embroideries, stitches, collage or applications. 
The paintings often have a subliminal contemporary social message. 
Several aspects can reveal themselves to the spectator. THE ARTIST:
“In my paintings I am fascinated by the human in motion as a reflection of contemporary life. I often work for years with a concept; in which new nuances arise.
The role of the material used is also important. As I was a fashion designer before being a contemporary artist, many of my paintings have traces of fashion and textile additions.
 I like to use transparent layers, textile additions like patchwork, holes, cuts and sutures, embroidery and of course the use of pigments to make intense colours." 
Her paintings are regularly exhibited, she gets commissions for paintings and occasionally for statues, her work is also collected abroad. She has for over ten years her own Gallery-Studio in Amsterdam, which can be visited by appointment.