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Ina Bartelds world of flowers |
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Born in 1950 in Klazienaveen in the North-East of Holland, Ina Bartelds taught drawing and |
 Ina Bartelds: Red Poppy and Sunflower |
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textile
art
for
9
years
in
Groningen
High
school. Interested in yoga as well as the meditative aspect of painting, she felt drawn to leave her native soil, too densely populated and busy for her liking, in order to devote herself to painting. |
Jailly-les-Moulins
and
moved
there
in
1994
to
live
surrounded
by
lush,
verdant nature,
rich
in
emotion
as
well
as
colour. Love of nature << I need this environment to be able to concentrate long-term on my love of nature as she |
her
subjects,
she
will
sometimes
work
quickly
onto
canvas
(as
with
'Red
Poppy')
but
at
other
times
she
makes
a
first
sketch
followed
by
more
technical
re-working. An original place to exhibit Another unusual facet of her |
Villy-en-Auxois
which
led
her
to
launch
out
into
this
great
adventure. |
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perhaps
because
of
the
deep
rural
significance
attached
to
it...
it
was
here
animal
fodder
was
kept
or
partisans
took
refuge.
And
so,
with
the
help
of
her
partner
Hans
and
their
son
Rémy,
the
whole
family
rolled
up
their
sleeves
and
worked
all
spring
to
make
the
barn
ready
to
be
a
true
exhibition
place. Since its opening and launch at the beginning of May, the artist has happily welcomed more than 250 visitors. So if, over the summer months, an outing takes you to one of the valleys of the Auxois region, in Jailly-les-Moulins, you will find the unique charm of the world of Ina Bartelds, a magic world where each flower seems to have a soul. Philippe DORLAND _______ Contact. Ina Bartelds, 21150 Jailly-les-Moulins (Phone: +33 (0)3.80.35.88.54). Exposition June - September, open for public at Saterday, Sunday and during the holidays between 15.00 and 19.00 hours. Also by appointment. |
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| The call of the great outdoors drew her to Central America and above all to Guatemala where the tropical flora would provide a vast resource for study and colour research. Arriving back in Europe she fell in love with | changes from one season to another », Ina confides.<<Oil painting seems to me to be the best technique for reproducing the intensity of colour in harmony with how I perceive them.>> Very sensitive to natural rhythms and to the 'essence' of | work has been the artists daring choice to exhibit in a barn in her own village, a world away from the closed ranks of urban galleries. It was her participation in the exhibition last summer for the 'Evasions Vertes' in several barns in and around | ||
