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Malaga
Mixed media artist
Birgit Gerritsen
Coín
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spain
My DREAMSCAPES are formed by dreams, thoughts and the visual information that is fired at us daily through a variety of media.
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 emerge, it is an organic process. The landscapes grow through layers of images, shapes and textures from the imagery I encounter through various media. I use photos from film and TV stills, images and text from magazines and newspapers, as well as plastic trash and organic material that I find.
As a visually oriented person, I am both stimulated and overstimulated by visual pollution and feel the need to process, transform and translate this bulk of visual information and materials I find into a virtual landscape.
Textures, textures and layers emerge, it is an organic process.
In my earlier work (WONDERLAND) figures played the main role, but more and more collages take the form of landscapes that become more abstract and the figures disappear into the background merge into larger forms and these forms merge with each other. The visual information is like leaves that whirl down and compost into earth from which new life grows, as in nature.
The layering is like the layering of experiences, of an "emotional landscape. It is a personal, logical and natural process. An exploration of experimentation with forms, materials and techniques, where the shaping and the story I want to tell reinforce each other.
Works of
Birgit Gerritsen
Bittersweet luxury
residual material
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Fjord
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acrylic and oil paint, paper, epoxy, beach sand and plants on canvas 2018
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Fluid
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Infra aequor maris
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Lady French Kiss
oil on canvas, collage, fruit nets, paper, acrylic paint, colored pencil, fabric scraps
2013-2019
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Mushrooms
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Pandemonium
mixed media/collage technique
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framed
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Reflections
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Orange
oil on canvas, collage, fruit nets, paper, acrylic paint, colored pencil, fabric scraps
2013-2019
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The gardens are deserted
mixed media/collage technique
acrylic paint, pieces of magazines and cardboard on canvas 2019
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Gypsy woman with oranges
oil paint on canvas, collage, fruit nets, paper, acrylic paint, colored pencil, scraps of fabric, snap button
2013-2019
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