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Onke
About Onke
Dutchie but worldly, now living in Italy. Looking for beauty everywhere and trying to create work that resonates that.
I love creating art together through teaching and am a big fan of nature, yoga, mindfulness and being and connecting with others of different cultures. Always curious, to me life is a work of art!
Art, for me, is a way of holding space for what cannot be fully explained. It’s a practice of grounding emotion in material form, and of making the invisible visible, if only for a moment.
My work explores the quiet poetry of human connection- moments of intimacy, memory, and unspoken understandin. Through texture, abstraction, and layered forms, I seek to capture what is often more felt than seen: the energy between bodies, the weight of presence, the journey of self in life.
I am very happy my work found new homes in The Netherlands, Australia, Spain and France. A lot of them are expressionist portraits.
Curriculum Vitae
Experience
exhibition I see you
Barcelona
50 portraits of people in the streets of Barcelona
Education
Painting and ceramics courses everywhere I lived or stayed for a long time
Ibiza, Barcelona, Alella, Premia de Dalt, Bali
Learn more and from different teachers, always curious to explore
Vrije kunstacademie
The Hague, the Netherlands
Nude figure painting
Bachelor of Education in Primary Teaching
The Hague, The Netherlands
My favorite has always been teaching art, to kids, to adults, in museums, learning based on art, connecting workshops through art
A bit of law and a bit of French Language, Art and Literature at university
Leiden, The Netherlands
Working on finding passion between reducing to the essentials and moving from realism to abstraction and finding beauty and connection in a different culture, connecting, beauty by studying it. In the end I can now say that I did this later on in life by moving a lot, traveling a lot, being and connecting everywhere. Finding beauty in other cultures, people, languages and putting it in a home, photos and now paintings.
Classical painting, still lifes, landscapes, portraits
Zeeland, Netherlands
As a child I was taught in a very essential, classical way working with oilpaints and charcoal