World Fine Art Professionals and their Key-Pieces, 492 - Jacqueline van der Grijn
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World Fine Art Professionals and their Key-Pieces, 492 – Jacqueline van der Grijn
In the exhibition The sea, the sea ….. in the Hague Art Circle I saw a series of beautiful ebb and flow paintings by Jacqueline van Grijn. And also a large work on the same subject.
We met at her paintings in the Albert Vogelzaal and then went to bar-restaurant Vascobelo to talk about it further.
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Homesickness painting
The small paintings were made especially for this exhibition, she says. The large painting has been there for a while. “That is a ‘homesickness painting’. We lived in Switzerland for five years because of my husband’s work. I was homesick for the sea there. We did live on Lake Geneva, which was a kind of replacement for the sea. I painted a lot there. You have people who love the mountains and people who love the sea. I belong to the latter group. I think mountains are beautiful, but oppressive.”
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All her work is based on the landscape and nature. “That is my great source of inspiration. I like to be outside, in nature to walk or cycle. In my work I try to convey the feeling that evokes.”
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The sea is unpredictable
Jacqueline grew up in Weesp, studied biology in Leiden and lived in The Hague. She is a biologist. In the propaedeutic year of her studies she had to draw a lot. She loved it. “That’s how it started. For biology and art, you have to be very good at observing for both.”
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People need nature to feel happy, she says. “Especially when they are tense, they are drawn to it.” She hopes that when people look at her art, they will find peace, a sense of contentment. “The sea, which moves, is unpredictable, always the same but still different every moment. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes threatening, ominous. It can evoke different emotions.”
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Does Jacqueline have a key work?
She does. “I was working on a drawing. It was eight years ago. I wasn’t happy with it and tore it into pieces. I used the pieces to make a collage of an abstract landscape. That was the beginning of many collages. Abstract works, which those who looked at them could interpret in their own way.”
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How long has she been an artist?
She attended the evening classes at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and graduated in 1993 in the Drawing, Painting and Etching department. For many years she was also a part-time biology teacher at a secondary school. “Now I no longer teach and I am only busy with my art.”
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What is her experience of the art world?
“I have been a member of the Voorschoten Art Circle for a long time. It is nice to meet other artists there. When I graduated from the Academy, I no longer received feedback, which I found difficult. It is good if you can spar. I have just become a member of the Hague Art Circle. There are more disciplines there than at the Voorschoten Art Circle, such as design and architecture, literature, theatre, film and music. That makes it extra interesting.”
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She really enjoys setting up exhibitions with the work of others. “I do that in Voorschoten as a member of the exhibition committee. If I don’t draw or paint for a while, I get grumpy, it’s a necessity of life. In Switzerland I gave drawing lessons, for people from the neighbourhood. Very nice. You realise that what you do automatically is not automatic for someone else. You have to think about that. How you convey that.”
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Finally, what is her philosophy?
“A work of art should speak for itself. If you need a whole story, it’s not good. I’m not really into conceptual art. I think it’s important to try to execute it technically well. At the Royal Academy, you first learned the techniques. Only then, in the fourth year, did you start working on your own free work. I like to alternate; sometimes etching, sometimes painting, sometimes drawing.”
Images
1) breaking wave 1, 2) breaking wave 2, 3) breaking wave collage, 4) breaking wave mixed media, 5) collage Lac Léman, 6) portrait photo Jacqueline van der Grijn, 7) wave 1, 8) wave 2, 9) stormy sea, 10) Lac Léman vue de Commugny
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