Drawing 'Armada' (Jacobien de Rooij)

Drawing: Pastel on paper

Title: Armada

Artist: Jacobien de Wit (1947)

 

Coastal landscapes and tidal pool in many layers of velvety pastel dominate in Jacobien de Rooi's work. She always bases her drawings on fragments of nature she has seen at first hand.

 

The artist herself:

"Somewhere on the east coast of Donegal in Ireland, there's small beach with a big history. A ship from the Spanish Armada was wrecked here. The place is dotted with an unbelievable variety of rocks in the most unlikely colors and shapes. A large outcrop seems to float on a thin layer of water. And beneath the water, the different colors of the rocks shimmer. The large scale of my landscapes gives them an inescapable presence."

 

 

Museum MORE, Gorssel, The Netherlands, had last year an interesting exhibition called 'Size Matters | Monumental Drawings', where you could see dozens of large-scale and imposing drawings. All these works of art measure at least 2 meters in height of width, larger than most people themselves.

I visited this exhibition, just a day before it ended and was quite impressed. I will show you a few works. Enjoy ;-))

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