Art exhibition - Carla Kleekamp
Born 1937 in Hilversum, Netherlands
Both in graphics as well as in the drawings of Carla Kleekamp, the line is the most important element through which she creates and expresses her ideas. Carla's work consists mainly of etchings, watercolour paintings and drawings. She works with mixed techniques: watercolour painting, the Japanese paint-brush, collage, in which however the etching is mainly the base.
In the '70 Carla visited an exhibition of Japanese woodcuts from the Ukiyo-ye period in the Dutch ˝Rijksmuseum˝. There she encountered a whole new speech of images:
Strong expressive lines, two dimensional and balance with the emptiness. This experience strongly marked and influenced her further work. Four years of lessons from a Chinese teacher, Lai Fung and later a study trip to Japan, have been essential for her. Her work shows her close attachment to nature and animals, visualizing her concern with these, who always get the worst of it by conflicts of interest between human beings.
The last ten years, the exchange projects with her Siberian colleagues, were her most important activities which left a new notable trace on her latest works. Besides this she regularly exhibits in galleries in the Netherlands and France, where she always spends some time of the year.
Common Carla’s motifs are various images of nature and animals. She is very concerned about them, as they are always drawn into human interests. G.B. Shaw says: »Animals are my friends and I do not eat my friends”.
Both in graphics as well as in the drawings of Carla Kleekamp, the line is the most important element through which she creates and expresses her ideas. Carla's work consists mainly of etchings, watercolour paintings and drawings. She works with mixed techniques: watercolour painting, the Japanese paint-brush, collage, in which however the etching is mainly the base.
In the '70 Carla visited an exhibition of Japanese woodcuts from the Ukiyo-ye period in the Dutch ˝Rijksmuseum˝. There she encountered a whole new speech of images:
Strong expressive lines, two dimensional and balance with the emptiness. This experience strongly marked and influenced her further work. Four years of lessons from a Chinese teacher, Lai Fung and later a study trip to Japan, have been essential for her. Her work shows her close attachment to nature and animals, visualizing her concern with these, who always get the worst of it by conflicts of interest between human beings.
The last ten years, the exchange projects with her Siberian colleagues, were her most important activities which left a new notable trace on her latest works. Besides this she regularly exhibits in galleries in the Netherlands and France, where she always spends some time of the year.
Common Carla’s motifs are various images of nature and animals. She is very concerned about them, as they are always drawn into human interests. G.B. Shaw says: »Animals are my friends and I do not eat my friends”.
