FAREWELL TO LEEN VAN HULST (1982 - 2025)
Our fellow artist and group member Leen van Hulst passed away in January.
An Om Tryambakam for Leen; the mantra of healing, travellers and the departed.
It is hard for us to believe that Leen is no longer walking this earth. We experienced her as a very sensitive, subtle and warm-hearted person, and as a dynamic graphic artist. Leen worked in a wide variety of media, from graphic novel to magazine illustrations, prints and small press.
Be it in her characteristically sensitive watercolour portraits, in her vigilant and unerring pencil drawings, in the subtle materiality of her aquatint etchings or her experimental work for risoprints and screenprints - based on a visual realism, often autobiographically tinged, Leen has consistently radiated a light vibration and achieved a wonderful poetic quality in her illustrations.
We already miss her very much, and our collective will be a different one without Leen.
Have a safe journey, Leen!