Erna de Backer
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“Aquaplanning” by Erna de Backer
Publics Prize 2007.
Watercolour Show A.I.B. Belgium – Europe.
Erna de Backer was born in the year 1952 in Denderwindeke (Pajottenland), a lovely village in Belgium. She was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts for 18 years, and she still finds her studies insufficient. She is a signature member of the AIB ( Aquarel Institute Belgium).
For her watercolour is fascinating, difficult, underestimated, challenging, honest and inexhaustible.
With this watercolour Erna was honoured with the Publics Prize in the main 2007 Watercolour Show at Mol, Belgium.
Wat betekent aquarel voor mij ?
Boeiend
Moeilijk
Onderschat
Uitdagend
Eerlijk
Onuitputtelijk.
De aquarel “Aquaplanning” vind ik in de eerste plaats ludiek eerder dan artistiek. Het zal de aparte
manier van benadering van water zijn, dat de kijker zal aangesproken hebben. Het maken van deze
aquarel gebeurde vrij vlot eens de tekening in potlood was gemaakt. Er werden geen afdekmiddelen
gebruikt, alléén in de linker en rechterbovenhoek werden wat zoutkristallen aangebracht. Verder is het
gewoon techniek, zoals spatten met de juiste kleur en kwantiteit van water in je borstel, de juiste
richting en... doe maar op. WAT je wil vetertellen benadruk je, de rest laat je achterwege.
Erna is geboren 1952 en wonende te Denderwindeke, Stebbingen, 10. Zij volgde 18 jaaracademie en vind dit nog steeds onvoldoende.Lid van de fantastische vereniging A.I.B. en is er sinds kort ook kernlid ervan.
Van harte proficiat Erna!
With thanks to the artist. / Photographs: Erna de Backer.
Mary Fedden
A fine watercolour by Mary Fedden will be sold in auction in Berkshire, U.K., on October 23.
Man on a beach Watercolour. Signed and dated 1989 lower right, inscribed "Felicity & Harry with love" lower left. 13.5cm x 19cm. The Felicitly and Harry to whom this is dedicated are Sir Henry (Harry) Fisher (1918-2005) President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Judge and his wife Felicity (Sutton) (1922-2007). See lot 181 for a portrait of Felicity by Augustus John. A variant of this watercolour was sold at Sotheby’s Olympia, lot 160, 7th September 2006.
Mary Fedden was born in 1915, she graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1936 after which she returned to Bristol where she taught and painted until the outbreak of World War Two. From 1946 she developed her style of still lives and flower paintings which were reminiscent of Matisse and Braque. About her husband Julian Trevelyan:
'He really changed the direction of my painting'
In 1956 she was a teacher at the Royal College of Art , after 1964 when she took up a ten year post at the Yehudi Menuhin School for gifted musicians.
' I really float from influence to influence…. I found the early Ben Nicholsons fascinating as were the paintings of his wife Winifred. I also admire the Scottish artist Anne Redpath and the French painter Henri Hayden.' 1 ('The Artist' magazine, 1995)
Mary Fedden was President of the Royal West of England Academy from 1984 to 1988 and was elected a Royal Academician in the Senior Order in 1992. Working exclusively in watercolour and collage her still lives are usually placed in front of a landscape. She loves the rough texture of her favourite Indian papers which she works on in their unstretched state .
Another splendid watercolour: "Untitled"
Expo Jan Vanriet
"Snène"
Click to enlarge Jan Vanriet (1948) is schilder, graficus, illustrator en dichter Vanriet maakt schilderijen waarin de mens zich beweegt in een suggestief kader. Elk schilderij laat zich lezen als een onderdeel van zijn beeldtaal, als een gedicht van vorm en kleur.
Centraal in De Bijl toont Jan Vanriet een voorstelling van een rolschaatsend meisje. Ook een reeks tekeningen en aquarellen zijn te bewonderen waaronder enkele uit “De Testamenten”, een serie met de Bijbel als onderwerp.
Tentoonstellingsruimte De Bijl
Dorp 1-3
Zoersel (Belgium)
van zaterdag 6 tot en met zondag 28 oktober
open op:
zaterdag van 13.30 tot 18 uur
zondag van 11 tot 18 uur
The painter Jan Vanriet was born in Antwerp on 21 february 1948.
In 1972, after his studies at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, he first exhibited at De Zwarte Panter Gallery. Immediately afterwards a partnership was born with Jan Lens. In this period he developed into an excellent aquarellist and a few books were published : 'maria lecina', 'death in venice', 'het teken van de hamster'.
He took part in the Menton Biennale and exhibited at Naviglio, Milan and Brusberg, Hannover. The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Kunstverein in Darmstad exhibited the Death in Venice series.
Exhibitions e.a. in Dublin, Michigan, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Luxembourg.
Vanriet made a mural for the De Brouckère metro station in Brussels : two walls, panels on metal around 210 metres long.
Jan Vanriet lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium) and in the Provence (France).
Official website of the artist.With thanks to the artist. / photographs: Jan Vanriet.
