Painting 1 - Series “Growing - Closer - Love is all”
Canvas - mixed media (gold leaf, watercolour, pastel, charcoal)
80 x 80 cm

Kristel Van Rode Art

Out of the Dark - SOLD

50 x 65 cm, 300 gr, Grain Fain Cold-pressed Watercolour paper, pastel, pencils, charcoal, acrylic, watercolour

“Il faut oublier 
Tout peut s'oublier 
Qui s'enfuit déjà 
Oublier le temps 
Des malentendus 
Et le temps perdu”
Jacques Brel

P.33.5 Memories

50 x 65 cm, 300 gr, Grain Fain 
Cold-pressed Watercolour paper, pastel, pencils, charcoal, acrylic, watercolour

Barberini Faun,⁠
⁠
“Your mind and your experience call to me
You have lived and your intelligence is sexy
I want to know what you got to say.⁠
You think like a whip on a horse's back
Stretched out to the limit, you make it crack
Send that horse round and round the track⁠
I want to know what you got to say.”⁠

* * *

And so expectations were created, 
and it is always a hard thing to compete with an illusion.

P.33.2 Old Devil

50 x 65 cm, 300 gr, Grain Fain Cold-pressed Watercolour paper, pastel, pencils, charcoal, acrylic, watercolour

“Sometimes you get what you want. 
Other times, you get a lesson in patience, timing, alignment, empathy, compassion, faith, perseverance, resilience, humility, trust, meaning, awareness, resistance, purpose, clarity, grief, beauty and life. 
Either way, you win.”
© Brianna Wiest

* * *

Even if you burn your wings, and fall, it’s all worth it. 
I would do it all over again, in exactly the same way. Would you?

P.33.4 Ikarus

50 x 65 cm, 300 gr, Grain Fain Cold-pressed Watercolour paper, pastel, pencils, charcoal, acrylic, watercolour

And so the story begins..

Beginning of 2020, I decided this year would be “my year”. 
Little did I know what was in store for all of us… 

Back then I decided to change many different things in my life, so-called bad habits.  I also decided it was time to come out with my art and stop hiding behind art classes.

2020 was unearthing - a year of self-discovery, a year where I realised that ‘settling’ wasn’t good enough.
* * *

Feeling alive - through heartbreak & goodbyes, but equally through new experiences. I realised that the way we connect with other humans, IS our most precious possession. 
Honest-ly, personal-ly, through touch & feel.

P.33.1 New Horizons

50 x 65 cm, 300 gr, Grain Fain Cold-pressed Watercolour paper, pastel, pencils, charcoal, acrylic, watercolour

Multiple and multiple layers of paint, wet in wet, dry on wet, charcaol, gesso, anything really to test the boundaries of what a paper support can endure. The paper ends up being torn, damaged…. blasphemy 😆. 

Just like humans, the paper bears the scars of becoming the painting. 
Is the value of a painting only determined by its perfection? 
Or is it equally determined by the layers, good intentions, emotions we bleed into it?

 “I thought becoming myself
Was improving each part
Piece by piece
But it was finding
A hidden wholeness
Seeing the fractures
As the design”
© Brianna Wiest

* * *

A trip down memory lane.
A step closer to finding my essence.

P.33.3 Escape

white

yellow

orange

purple

dark blue

green

light blue

brown

black

Acrylic

Aquatint

Canvas

Chalk

Charcoal

Clay

Concrete

Embroidery

Graphite

Gold

Mixed Media

Metal

Oil Paint

Paper

Pastels

Pencil

Pigment

Resin

Tempera

Textile

Watercolor

Collage

Other

Film

Digital

Ceramic

Wire

Wood

Yarn

Stone

Porcelain

Marble

Glass

Plastic

Design

Drawing

Engraving

Etching

Linocut

Lithography

Painting

Prints

Screen Print

Text

Work on paper

Photography

3D Print

Performance

Sculpture

Landscape

Portrait

Very large

Large

Medium

Small

Very Small

The Runner

Beyond the threshold

Unveiling Desire (Framed)

Renascita

The dance of distance

Gallery 1 - Italy

Kristel Van Rode Art

collection: Portraiture

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