Edith Snoek | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Edith Snoek is from Gorinchem, the Netherlands. Always ""busy creating,"" she is very attentive to the world around her. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague she devoted herself entirely to painting. The artist finds inspiration while strolling down the street, reading the newspaper or by the exciting sight of a picture, a movie, or on reading a poem. The verses of ""Girls Playing"" by Dutch poet Willem Wilmink perfectly reflect the artist’s work and thinking. The author speaks of a man with gloomy thoughts, who, on crossing a group of girls playing together, opens his eyes to the beauty of the world and finds faith in the future. Children are indeed the main characters in Edith’s works. She is constantly searching for their images in the media, deconstructing their faces and behaviour. Sometimes naive, sometimes vulnerable, these representations are, for her, a real ""bank of iconographic"" data. Excited by her discoveries and memories, Edith goes back to her studio. \n In this way Edith takes us into a world of picturesque scenes, peaceful atmosphere and wilderness. Her world is full of children, deer, rabbits ... These beings are captured, still, calm and quiet. They appear to be wrapped in a ghostly mist. This blurring is deliberately accentuated by layers of acrylic paint with which the artist covers her sketches. She manipulates shades of white and has chosen to use clear colours to best express the purity and innocence. Through her paintings, Edith Snoek sends us a deeply sincere message of peace and love. This fulfilled mother and grandmother looks towards the future with confidence and optimism. \n She wants to convey her vision of a world that, despite often developing negatively, is primarily majestic.