Dear visitor. This blog is no longer active since 2023. I cordially invite you to follow my work / the developments within that work via instagram : https://www.instagram.com/riettewanders/ , and to view the past through this blog . Thanks for your visit!

Thank you Justin Andrews and Kyle jenkins for including my work in this wonderful publication! Sphere no. 4 includes submissions by Linda Arts, Blake Baxter, Ruth Campau, Frauke Dannert, Tim Cierpiscewski, Sebastian Freytag, Peter Holm,Tarn Mc Lean and Tilman.

This digital drawing has found a new home in Andalasusië!

Oil pastel on paper.

                                              

                           Digital drawings/ overpaintings

Digital drawings/overpaintings

 

 

Recently, I have been looking a lot at my own past work , partly to redefine what I am doing now, and sometimes to revise and re-execute earlier works. I like to stay in touch with everything I have developed/done/made and see this as 1 body of work.

I made these larger-than-life commissioned sculptures around 2004. 

Currently out of office.

 

'HISS FLUTTER SQUEAL', 18/19-06-2022 A solo presentation and overview of the works I developed in the past half year. The exhibition was on display at 2 locations. Thank you all for coming!!

The title is taken from a text fragment written by Pieter Dobbelsteen:'Romantic an boundless, sometimes dark but always full of zest, Wanders' abstract black and white works touch upon a fundamental exoerience -a living experience. One of stacking, hissing, fluttering, squealing. Rattling, swimming, drowning, burning. Cutting, chopping, blossoming, erasing, binding and bulging. Ultimately the meaning is in the making'

 

A duo show by me and Wannes Lecompte in a wonderful antiquarian bookshop for the occasion of the Ubbhill music festival, Ubbergen NL. Performance by Wannes  Lecompte and Jurgen Augusteyns.

 

 

Studiowall collage, mixed media.

 

 

A second chance for my 'failed' works.

 

Acrylic, felt, satin and silkscreen print on cotton. 2x175x120 cm.

 

Interview ( in Dutch) by Robert van Altena, Springvossen Amsterdam FM.

https://www.amsterdamfm.nl/springvossen-436-riette-wanders/ 

Just completed this series of 4. Cotton on cotton, 4x240x240 cm.

 

Mid december 2021 I started a series of large works that consisted only of white lines on a black surface. I was in a period where many things went wrong, and I needed slow, laborious and compelling work. I generally don't see my work as therapeutic, but certainly as part of my daily life and thus it reflects, consciously or unconsciously, where I am.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY98fHNPd5w 

 

I started the new year at the house of a dear friend in Gochar, Almeria in the south of Spain, an area I visit regularly.