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VERA STOLTE, ARTIST

MASTERS GALLERY highlights weekly art works by prominent artists. Vera Stolte, or Crazy Art by Vera, creates mostly colorful and expressive work. Her strength lies in faces, and she prefers to incorporate something striking into each item. Like thick materials, so you can literally feel a painting.Text: Larissa Schaule Jullens
Image: Vera Stolte

80's Madonna

"This painting consists of a lot of layers and mixed media: differentmaterials and techniques. Because so much is happening, you keep looking at it. First, I covered the entire canvas with a book. You can see this through in some parts and that was a conscious choice. It is a painting with a frame four inches thick. A so-called 3D canvas. I like using these thick canvases. It really makes you have something hanging on your wall. Why Madonna from the eighties? Because of the 80's colors, patterns and prints. Nice and hysterical. Neon pink, green, yellow, purple, blue, all colors mixed together. Dots, stripes, crazy surfaces and so on. I like that you wonder what I did first or last..."

Inner peace

"Unlike the neon colors I like to use, here I chose ice blue and light purple tones. Deliberately not bright colors, but cool tones, in other words. That in combination with this pose I thought this was a perfect balance. The title of the painting already indicates what the painting radiates: (inner) peace. Again I used striking details. Especially her earrings stand out. I thickened these extra, so you can literally feel them. These really stand out when you stand in front of the painting. Here too I have used metallic accents. A solid frame four inches thick gives this painting extra body. With every painting it is interesting where it will hang: this one, for example, would look great in a quiet white room. On the other hand, these colors also stand out against a black wall, for example. For me, this painting expresses what I find very important: inner peace. If you manage that, you can handle the whole world."

Untouchable

"An intense and penetrating gaze. This canvas exudes confidence and strength. Partly because of the size of the canvas, this is literally and figuratively an eye-catcher. Here again mixed media has been used. The color scheme is ton sur ton. Different shades of gray, combined with black, white and metallic. Depending on the incidence of light, the sparkle falls on a different point each time. I love painting women. I can find inspiration any time of the day. From fashion magazines, pictures from the past and sometimes I just walk somewhere and then I see someone who inspires me. I prefer to use a powerful pose, or striking look. Here I chose shades of black and white. If this painting had been in color, it would have looked very different. That's a trade-off you always have to make."

Take a look at Vera's website here.