Tag: contemporary art

Personas #II

by Project Silvermapleballroom, posted in Art, art projects, contemporary, cruel, drawings, emotions, gouaches, indian ink, installations, music, nature, people, photographs, women, works on paper

(©) Have been away for a while, excited about new project 'Personas'. Been searching for the right name, came up with Personas. It describes the confusion and worries here at this moment in this part of Europe.

Daily Little Sketches /4 /1/2022

by Project Silvermapleballroom, posted in art projects, contemporary, drawings, emotions, gouaches, indian ink, music, nature, people, photographs, women, works on paper

 Daily little sketches /11/2021 It’s so much fun to start a day with these little sketches as a way to create my day.Playing with my subconscious thoughts, and it mostly surprises me what comes out.It has no meaning, it’s there in itself, quite a liberating exercise.For a while I can let go with a free mind, … Continue reading Daily Little Sketches /4 /1/2022

Daily little sketches /7/12/2021

by Project Silvermapleballroom, posted in Art, art projects, contemporary, drawings, emotions, gouaches, people, works on paper

(©)  Daily little sketches /11/2021 It’s so much fun to start a day with these little sketches as a way to create my day.Playing with my subconscious thoughts, and it mostly surprises me what comes out.It has no meaning, it’s there in itself, quite a liberating exercise.For a while I can let go with a free … Continue reading Daily little sketches /7/12/2021

Aug. 2021 Kabul Finsternis

by Project Silvermapleballroom, posted in Art, art projects, contemporary, cruel, drawings, emotions, fear, Finsternis, gouaches, people, women, works on paper

Finsternis #2 indian ink acrylic on paper 65x50 cm 2021 Referring to the cruel situation in Afganistan and Kabul My hart goes out specially to all women who will be drawn into sinister times With no escape no outcome no future Peoples being victims of these illiterate barbarians My projects are related to the world … Continue reading Aug. 2021 Kabul Finsternis

Aug. 2021 Kabul Finsternis

by Project Silvermapleballroom, posted in Art, art projects, contemporary, drawings, emotions, fear, Finsternis, gouaches, installations, people, women, works on paper

.Finsternis #1 gouache, indian ink on paper 65x50 cm 2021. Referring to the cruel situation in Afganistan and Kabul My hart goes out specially to all women who will be drawn into sinister times With no escape no outcome no future Victims of these illiterate barbarians Trying to express here the hopeless emptyness that must … Continue reading Aug. 2021 Kabul Finsternis

Kabul Women Finsternis

by Project Silvermapleballroom, posted in Art, art projects, drawings, emotions, gouaches, installations, music, nature, people, photographs, women, works on paper

. 2021 Aug. Kabul Women Finsternis IIMy Notes today Today my noting down what’s on my mind The cruel situation in Afganistan and Kabul My hart goes out specially, to all women who will be drawn into sinister times With no escape no outcome no future being the victims of these illiterate barbarians My projects … Continue reading Kabul Women Finsternis

Photo tableaux #I

by Project Silvermapleballroom, posted in Art, art projects, drawings, emotions, gouaches, installations, music, nature, people, photographs, women, works on paper

(©) Riedstra (©)The camera for me is a tool that I use in the same way I use the tools in my studio, making my works on paper or any other artefact. I love all these different materials, because it gives me possibilities in opposite directions. Widening my horizon, being the enfant terrible, so to … Continue reading Photo tableaux #I

‘The New Status Quo’ MMXX II

by Project Silvermapleballroom, posted in Art, art projects, drawings, emotions, gouaches, installations, music, nature, people, photographs, women, works on paper

litho ink, gouache, pastel, acrylic, oi ink, ballpoint, pieces of plastic  ‘The New Status Quo’ | Project MMXX / IIMy projects are related to today's world, I merely try to record, through my projects (works on paper, photo- photo projects) disturbing events that have a lasting impact on society(©)Riedstra

Tink Tank #V (facing a future)  2016 – onwards

by Project Silvermapleballroom, posted in Art

(©)Riedstra Tink Tank #V (facing a future)  mixed media on paper 75 x 50 cm 2016 onwards My small contribution as an artist. An attempt to record inner expressions behind the faces of ordinary peoples in a taut, tantalizing relationship with inner and outer worlds, worlds in chaos and turmoil in uncertainty where it is heading. Against an extreme … Continue reading Tink Tank #V (facing a future)  2016 – onwards

Project Tink Tanks 2016 onwards (facing a future)

by Project Silvermapleballroom, posted in Art

(©)Riedstra Tink Tank III mixed media on paper 75 x 50 cm 2016 So many peoples, so unsure and unsafe today, this is my small contribution as an artist. An attempt to record inner expressions behind the faces of ordinary peoples in a taut, tantalizing relationship with inner and outer worlds, worlds in chaos and turmoil in uncertainty … Continue reading Project Tink Tanks 2016 onwards (facing a future)