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By building layer upon layer, Nikkie le Nobel (1959) creates impressions of nature in abstracted spaces. 'The ambiguity of our perception is a reason for me to layer my paintings and drawings.

Both in the use of paint and in the composition of the image.
This way, I can investigate both the formal qualities of a painting and the interpretations that arise from the relationship between the different image layers. The shapes arise intuitively, arising from the behavior of the paint, or strictly directed, and looking realistic.
The relationship they enter into with each other fascinates me, as does that between the flat surface and the illusion of spaciousness.
Often one of the image layers consists of a different material; an embroidered layer or a flocked, velvety layer.

This allows me to create a layer that distinguishes itself from the other layers and gives a feeling of enrichment and intensity to my canvases.
My starting point is often shapes from nature.
Precisely these forms, by not being loaded with meanings, give me the space to create images to which I can give meaning while painting without wanting to be narrative. The image in the final painting has become removed from reality and touches on something else, on sensory, feelings and suggestion, open without wanting to be narrative.'

Graduated from the Art Academy, Tilburg in 1987
Exhibitions throughout the Netherlands, France and Spain since 1987.
Since 2023 Galerie Année

The works of vandeCamp & Heesterbeek start with portrait photography and end with abstraction.
Portrait photos are carefully deconstructed and assembled back together again.
The intent of the photo or the identity of the person portrayed are no longer relevant, there is only the image.
As reversed painters, they take out the irrelevant details of photography to get to the essence of the image.
Every once in a while a fictitious object is added. The identity and form of the person portrayed are remixed.
The result are images where the black and the white live their own lives.
The original portrayed persons are still recognizable, but are now part of a larger whole; albeit stripped to the existential minimum in a balanced composition.
After a period of long conversations about Art in general and their work in particular, Patricia and Marc discovered a lot of common ground.

Patricia and Marc work as an artist duo since 2018

Patricia van de Camp (1969) studied graphic Art and photography at the Rietveld academie in Amsterdam and the Design School SDU Kolding in Denmark.

Marc Heesterbeek (1965) studied architecture and
urban planning at the Technische Universiteit
Open Eindhoven and space architecture at the SICSA in Houston.

The work of vandeCamp & Heesterbeek has found its way into private and corporate collections at home and abroad.

Anne Rose Regenboog (1958) lebt in Den Haag, Niederlande.
1991 Abschluss an der Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Departement of Fine Arts in Metall.
Seitdem hat sie im In- und Ausland ausgestellt, und ihre Werke wurden in verschiedene Kunstsammlungen aufgenommen.

In ihrem Werk macht Anne Rose Entdeckungen innerhalb der Grenzen des Würfels, genauer gesagt der Rippen und Ecken des Würfels und der Linien dazwischen, die die Form teilen. Für sich genommen ist ein Würfel wie eine Zeichnung im Raum, luftig und konkret zugleich.
Für den flüchtigen Betrachter ist das Bild nie dasselbe, die Linien verschieben sich im Verhältnis zueinander, kreuzen sich und lassen sich wieder los. Die Form hat etwas Poetisches.

Zusammen in einer Installation werden die Kuben zu einer Geschichte, einer räumlichen Geschichte, die man nicht erzählen kann, sondern die man mit seinen Sinnen, seinen Augen, den Bewegungen seines Körpers erfahren muss. Dabei ist der Betrachter wesentlich.

1982 –1986 Vakschool edelsmeden in Schoonhoven
1986 –1990 Fine Arts aan de Gerrit RietveldAcademie Amsterdam
Sinds 2010 –Galerie Année

Bibi Smit (1965) is a Dutch glass artist. Her work explores the patterns and rhythms of movement in nature.
Her creative process is focused on the relationship between natural phenomena and the fluidity of hot glass, original experimentation and craftsmanship. By being able to control all processes, both in the hotshop and coldshop, her work shows an acute attention to detail and technique.

‘I have always been drawing as a child and from the age of ten onwards, I mostly have been water coloring.
Looking back, I think watercolour has an innate transparency that glass also has.
Hot glass for me seems to be alive, the way that it flows and moves, radiates light, it totally fascinates me.
Glass to me is like wind; you don’t see wind, but you see what wind does. Everything is moving, nothing is static.
And that is, for me, the essence of life’

1988 – 1989 Glass Assistant at Lindean Mill Glass, Galashiels, Scotland
1987 Trainee with Willem Heesen, Leerdam, The Netherlands

1985 – 1988 West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, UK, B.A. Honours 3-D Design, Glass 1984 – 1985 West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, UK, Foundation Course.

Bibi Smit began exhibiting her work from 1990, has had numerous solo and group shows at art fairs, museums and galleries, throughout The Netherlands, across Europe and America and her work is held in Public and Private Art Collections Worldwide.

2024 – Galerie Année

Alice Cescatti (1962) originally from New Zealand, is based in London.
Although she is living in a urban environment, Cescatti has instinctively gravitated towards locations for painting, that combine a sense of wilderness with intense light and colour. Cescatti’s paintings are water gilded in silver leaf on wood panels.
They are semi abstract works celebrating light and color enhanced by the backdrop of burnished silver.
Her work describes the great power and energy of our natural environment.
Alice draws the viewer into her paintings with the intention of focusing on the mindfulness of preserving nature in all it’s forms.

1980 – 1981 Fine Arts, Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand
1982 – 1985 Interior Design Consultant, General Trading Company, New Zealand

1991 – 1992 Interior Design Diploma, London School of Distributive Trade, London
1994 – 1996 Apprenticeship in the Restoration of Gilded Furniture for Rupert Bevan Design

Alice Cescatti is an award-winning artist who has had numerous Solo and Group Shows in London, throughout England, across Europe and America and her work is held in Public and Private Collections Worldwide.
Since 2017 – Galerie Année

Ralf Weber (1972) is a sculptor based in Germany. Fascinated by contrasts, contradictions and tension,
Weber is inspired by nature and its materials, usually black granite and white marble.
In his work he searches for the infinite line that envelops a volume like a movement in space.
'My works are sculptural sketches of space. The sculpture has an inner core that is connected to the infinite line.
This inner element is the soul of the block, which escapes my strict form concept.
The movements of the soul of the stone have a finer dynamic and an explicitly contrasting surface structure, the boundaries of which are determined only by the infinite line.
What I really want to show is that the whole thing is an impossible exercise.
The choice of materials is deliberately wrong. These works are about a real uselessness.
I cut and chisel for as long as necessary before the previous structures of the material, and thus the system, as it were, collapse.'

1992 – 1995 stone carving training in the traditional way.
Working as an artist - sculptor, since 1998.
Participation in numerous exhibitions and art fairs at home and abroad.

Since 2017 – Galerie Année