I am always curious about what happens when I try something differently. A new material, another way of working, or simply following an idea without knowing where it will lead. In these Process Notes, I share thoughts from the studio, recurring symbols, experiments, works in progress and the occasional adventure that finds its way into my practice.
Leonoor Ruigrok –
A small oil painting, a house-like form almost hidden in the landscape. In “Shelter”, colour, texture and movement gather around a form that remains quietly present.
Nature and human spirit. I keep returning to that thought, because I am not sure where one ends and the other begins. A dune, yes. A forest, yes. A bird, certainly. But a human being? A village? A city? A row of houses along a road? A swarm of people moving in the same direction…
Part 1 of opening my studio archive: Icelandic Houses. Wrapped works, bubble wrap, tape, small stubborn houses in far too much landscape, and the slow process of looking again.
Working in series allows ideas to unfold gradually across multiple paintings. Symbols, colour and composition shift and return. Series such as *Sneaky Hidden Sunflowers* and *Icelandic Houses* illustrate this process.
A literary reflection by author Karin Melis on the recurring figure of the hare in Leonoor Ruigrok’s work, and how this once-hidden figure gradually found its way back into her artistic practice.
A landscape changes in memory. Colours intensify, forms disappear and sometimes atmosphere remains more clearly than the actual place.
How much can a room change the way we experience a painting? Using *Promise of Spring* in different interior settings, I explore how wall colour, light, placement and surrounding space can completely change a painting’s presence.
Wakesurfing, wind, sudden storms and a lake that refused to sit still. This is the story behind painting Lake Orta, and how movement, weather and freedom found their way onto the paper.
Who started the fire? At some point, nobody knows. That sentence stayed with me after looking at Firestarter, a painting from my Dreamland series. There is a dark figure moving through a layered landscape. A soft sky above. Darker ground below. Somewhere in the painting, a small house-like form seems to glow. But the work…
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