Works

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Birgit Gerritsen

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About my work

My DREAMSCAPES are formed by the visual information that is fired at us every day, dreams and thoughts. I create these DREAM(E)SCAPES in my ‘visual diary’, on large paper or on canvas using mixed media: collage technique, by painting and drawing with pastel chalk. Textures, structures and layers are created, it is an organic process.

The landscapes grow through layers of images, shapes and structures from the visual material that I encounter through various media. I use photos of film and TV stills, images and texts from magazines and newspapers, but also plastic waste and organic material that I find. As a visually oriented person, I am both stimulated and overwhelmed by visual pollution and I feel the need to process, transform and translate this bulk of image information and materials that I find into a virtual landscape. As if in a vicious circle in nature, I imagine all this image information to be leaves that wirl down, disintegrate on the earth, mix with the soil and become compost from which new life grows.

WONDERLAND

In the past (human) figures played the leading role, but more and more collages took the form of landscapes, became more abstract and figures disappeared into the background, merge into larger forms and forms merge with each other.

It is a personal, logical and natural process. An exploration of experimenting with forms, materials and techniques, in which the shaping and the story that I want to tell reinforce each other.

Birgit 2019

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Mushrooms

2015 – pastel on paper – 140×200 cm
Mushrooms

Pandemonium

2020 – mixed media/collage, pastel and acrylic paint on paper – 140×200 cm
Pandemonium

Infra aequor maris

2022 – mixed media/collage and acrylic paint on canvas – 149×103 cm
Infra Aequor Maris

Fjord

2018 – mixed media/collage techniek on canvas – 130×120 cm
Fjord

Algae

2019 – mixed media/collage and acrylic paint on canvas – 130×120 cm
Algae

Reflections

2019 – mixed media/collage and acrylic paint on paper – 200×140 cm
Reflections

Deep

2015 – pastel on paper – 250×140 cm – sold
Deep

Meander

2015 – pastel on paper – 180×140 cm
Meander

Pastel Forest

2018 – acrylpaint and collage on canvas – 55×46 cm
Pastell Forest

Fluid

2021-2022 – acrylic paint and materials on canvas – 168×93 cm
Fluid

Dama French Kiss

2013-2020 – oil and collage on canvas – UpcycleArt – 24×33 cm
Dama French Kiss

Gitana con naranja

2013-2021 – oil and collage on canvas – UpcycleArt – 19×24 cm
Naranja

Goatmen

2011 – pastel on paper – 220×140 cm
Goatmen

Dancers

2006 – oilpaint and oilbars on canvas – 100×100 cm
Dancers

The Earpullman

2004 – oil on canvas – 100×100 cm
Earpullman

Dream

2001 – watercolour on paper – 40×30 cm – sold
Dream

Extasy

2001 – watercolour on paper – 30×24 cm – sold
Extasy

Art by Birgit

Birgit Gerritsen Murals

Art Classes by Birgit

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