THE SCULPTURES
While working at her sculptures the artist expresses her emotions in the work. She achieves this direct contact with the stone by carving and polishing exclusively by hand. Thus she stays in intimate contact with the character of the stone, creating a natural dialogue between the stone and the human figure expressed. Therefore the stone’s character is an essential part of the sculpture. The surface is often in contrast with the polished parts. This special effect shows her great ability to shape the stone into an expression of intense emotion. By the often voluminous shape of the sculptures, even the small ones, the work becoms compact, earthly and monumental. Sometimes they seem to float. "In 2004 I started a search for a new language of form. I wanted to examine the human shape by working in wax. Stone is a closed mass, asking for closed forms. While carving a stone you work from outside inwards. Each stroke of the hammer is irrevocable. Wax has different possibilities. You work from inside outwards, making open forms that can always be reshaped. I took ‘all ages of man’ as my subject. The statues were moulded in Greece, maximum eight copies of each.
In 2005 I returned to sculpture and started the flower pictures. These are often exposed together with the sculptures.
See also photography