Category: Series & Stories
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The Lake Wouldn’t Sit Still
Read more: The Lake Wouldn’t Sit StillWakesurfing, wind, sudden storms and a lake that refused to sit still. The story behind my Lago d’Orta series, from the first painting after wakesurfing to increasingly layered and unruly landscapes.
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Who Started the Fire?
Read more: Who Started the Fire?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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Opening the Studio Archive
Read more: Opening the Studio ArchivePart 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.
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Why I Work in Series
Read more: Why I Work in SeriesOne painting often leads to another. Leonoor Ruigrok reflects on working in series and how motifs, colours and ideas shift from one work to the next, from Sneaky Hidden Sunflowers to Icelandic Houses.
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Soft Hope
Read more: Soft HopeFrom the Dreamland collection Soft Hope began with something familiar. I had already painted many works in my Icelandic Houses series, returning again and again to the small house in an immense landscape. In this painting, the house became more of a hut. Somewhere you could simply be for a while. The landscape around it…
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After the storm
Read more: After the stormAnyway, it pulled me back to summer. To the way I dove into movement, of nature, on and in the water, and in myself. It influenced my painting. I put down a whole series.
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A Painting in Another Story
Read more: A Painting in Another StoryOn the website Ruimte voor woorden, a place where stories and insights converge, a painting in progress was recently used as an illustration. For a philosophical article by writer Karin Melis. This online space serves as a source of reflection and exchange, where stories are not just brief tales, but expansive paths of thought and contemplation.
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The liberation; a good story
Read more: The liberation; a good storyA good story. “The Liberation” is a 2024 artwork and part of the “Keepers” art series. It was created in oil paint, based on a sketch from a distant sketch-memory. These sketches had been lying in my drawing drawer for years, and, notably, the anthropomorphic figure “Hare” was still intimately connected to “Woman” in them. But what does…
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EARTHY LAYERED
Read more: EARTHY LAYEREDBLUE DEUX MIXEDMEDIA I don’t create a lot of abstract artwork, but this piece is one of my favorites, showcasing earthy layered textures and structures. These textures and mixed media form the foundation of my ‘It’s Nature’ series, which prominently features the anthropomorphic creature ‘Deer’. Moreover, this series combines natural elements with symbolic storytelling, blending…
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Flow#3
Read more: Flow#3Oilpainting on canvas (canvas aluminium framed) 2024 60 x 60 x 4 cm This expressive oilpainting artwork is all about freedom, the wind in your hair, dancing barefoot on the beach and the nice feeling of safety that makes you know that you can be free to choose your own movement and path in safety.…
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What?!
Read more: What?!What!” is a expressive oil panting and born seven years after I made the sketches. I took my sketchbook and it was time to explore the little figures on the little paper in my book. These figures are part of my stories and I there are mine surrealistic archetypes. Every story has his own feeling…
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layered materials: Deer You
Read more: layered materials: Deer YouLACE Ruigrok Title: Deer You Material: Mixed Media on paper Year: 2023