Last year I had an exhibition from a part of my work. To understand my art I made a video. It contains questions about our human existence, about you and who you are. So here’s the heart of my underwater art.
New work for 2025. Aquarel 60 x 60cm “ Going Down”
Isn’t it funny. The world is burning and this is how I needed to express myself as part of our world. Yesterday I also made the decision to leave insta and facebook eventually, because I have no clue anymore where my friends are up to unless I scroll myself a fracture in my fingers between all the useless advertising. And so I opened an account on Cara and Mastodon as well to find out what fits best.
Oh well it’s not the socials, right? It’s all about the passion for art and creation 😋❤️
Painting is the pathway of my soul. Trying to connect with that source isn’t always easy, but a necessity. I paint my dreams. Under water, my consciousness is trying to tell me something what is important for my earthly life.
So here it is. Another painting. Back to my roots, ‘under water dream’
A spiderweb in the morning. It’s like having diamonds but it makes me more happy to watch this then having the most expensive diamond in the world…. More art on
I needed to make something happy. Since I love nature, I remembered I always felt happy on sea. Sailing around as a little kid with my parents. And we met a lot of sea creatures as well. One day we sailed to a small island in front of the coast of France, ancre our boat in a bay for a swim on a sunny day. But we were not alone. There was a majestically seal laying on the rocs in the sun. I remember her face was pure happiness. When I started painting last week she rolled out. Selky.. I’ll never forget the day we met…
(Water color and ink on cotton 21x21cm, soon available in my shop as a set of postcards, check ⬇️ for more art)
Somehow I’m completely into painting animals or other worldly creatures at the moment. Maby it is my garden that gives the inspiration, who knows. But I wonder where you get your inspiration from?
The last few months I’m wandering around in social media land. Today I felt like a refugee from Instagram. I will spare you my complaints, but I need to find out if I can build my online gallery here. So if you like my art, I’m happy to meet you too 🥰
Een van de moeilijkste dingen die er zijn in mijn leven als beeldend kunstenaar is het vinden van motivatie.
Het is vandaag zo’n dag.
Het regent, wat de tuin als een knalgroen beeldscherm op mijn netvlies projecteert. En hoewel het prachtig is, moet ik zoeken naar motivatie om aan het werk te gaan.
Ik kijk op mijn lijstjes die ik eens niet ergens ben kwijtgeraakt, maar netjes heb vastgezet in mijn digitale notitieblok, maar het gevoel geen zin te hebben vandaag is erg sterk.
Eerst nog maar eens een kop koffie dan, even de vloer vegen en een papiercheck voor een vaag project dat ik in mijn hoofd heb.
Aan de andere kant van mijn kamer schreeuwt een wit canvas in stilte naar me. ‘Beschilder mij!’ Ik bekijk de verf, heb ik nog genoeg blauw en groen? ‘Shit, mijn zwart is op.’
Terug naar de Ipad, kijk ik online rond en beland in een hersenloos surfen op pagina’s die niets te maken hebben met het ‘aan de gang gaan’.
Het is inmiddels half elf als de frustratie zich echt aandient en ik besluit om gewoon een bak thee op de bank te gaan drinken en het ‘moeten’ creëren opgeef.
It’s a year ago when I started to draw my first Love Bird - No War. When I started I still had the naive idea that it would be a short war. The first week I couldn’t stop crying. The weeks after it I lost two friends who died there. So far my experience with a war far from my own country borders. The world changed the last couple of years. I don’t know why, but I have the feeling a lot of people stopped listening to eachother and can’t reach the lanquage of the heart anymore. It makes me sad and it makes me desperate sometimes. If I want people to listen, I need to be open myself aswell. I need to hear and try to understand why some of us have a completely different opinion about this world then I have.
I need courage to say I’m not ok with a lot of opinions, but an opinion used to do no harm. It was just an opinion and live goes on.
In Russia you can’t have an opinion. If you do have one, make sure it’s the same, the Kremlin is having, because every other one is treason against a criminal government.
Nowadays almost every political opinion has a weight. Also in my little country. There are politicians here threatened by mobs or online. Live threads, dead threads, you name it...
And like I was raised it’s never ok to threaten someone if you don’t share another vision or opinion.
Polarisation is a verbal war at first, before it becomes a physical war I think.
I often feel like WW2 is to far ago for some of us to remember how that started. I wasn’t there, but my grandmother told me a lot about it when she was still alive. It has it’s similar events. And do people ever learn from the past, or do we need to forget and learn it the hard way over and over again? Is this also human nature?
I often asked myself last year what I would do when another country invaded mine.
Would I fight? Would I stay passive? Would I know hate the way some people hate. Raw hate is a brick wall you can touch, but not break trough, because behind it, lies a great sadness and even bigger anger.
How would it be if soldiers marching trough my streets, occupying buildings not theirs? Where does our freedom go when a government has no other choice then to fight and calls everyone to join? Would I flee, or would I defend my country until I die?
So with every bird I draw there are these questions.
Freedom as we know it in my country is more vulnerable then ever and we need to cherish it. Because it can be over in a wink of an eye.
And that is why I draw my Love Birds. As a reminder that nothing and certainly not freedom, is for granted.
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Meet Wimper. I’m sketching him as one of the mayor characters of my picturebook. It’s a rough sketch I made when I woke up in the middle of the night. Let me know what you think of him?
My first steps to a new account and ‘secretly’ moving over from instagram and facebook. My page here will be all about my artwork, my thoughts and writings about this strange world we live in. If you want to see all my work please visit my website or find me on instagram as well.
www.ateliersamsara.nl or on instagram ECB_Ateliersamsara & evaliefcb
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