Nelly Van Nieuwenhuijzen is a contemporary Dutch painter. Her expansive skyline landscapes are the result of a deep immersion in the openness of the Zeeland region. The presence of a mysterious undertone is evident. Color movement continues in the invisible behind the horizon, as though caught in line. The emphasized line serves as both a barrier and a window. The intricacies and small variances in rhythm express a wide spectrum of emotions.
Winter in my polder. The roofs and fields are white. It will snow again. Silence all around. "I could feel the sky. The movement. The pressure. The unimaginable expanse! I love how the sky is nearly everything. The things on earth minimized." "Your low horizon lines are so dramatic and so very Dutch". (acrylic painting on canvas, 30x30cm)
www.nellyvannieuwenhuijzen.nl
'My landscapes are me...
I could always paint them..
When I look outside I see them
And when I look inside I see them.'
In the long tradition of Dutch Landscape painters Nelly van Nieuwenhuijzen has obtained a very own and special place. Her skyline landscapes: "The landscapes of Van Nieuwenhuijzen are extensive, born from an intense experience of the openness of the Zeeland area. An undertone of mysticism is unmistakable. As if caught in line and color movement continues in the invisible behind the horizon. The accentuated line is both the boundary and the window. The subtle differences in rhythm and nuances reflect a range of emotions. (C. Bos) "endless skies great views are surrounding me are inside me are inspiring me are giving me my artist soul" 1994 at Dutch TV an ART program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjketyerF8U&list=FLXGBePJdokRTj6X6Q7I6hCw
Nelly started her professional artist-career in 1975. The inspiration comes from her surroundings : the skies, the skylines, the dykes and the sea. Zeeland is renowned for its special, beautifull light: it is refracting in the water around the isles and the polders. Her landscapes are representing a special place in the long tradition of Dutch landscape-artists.
Other subjects are her so beloved cats and catwomen and other female-portraits. She obtained a very personal style in representing her favourites. ( ' They are sirens of your imagination. They go to places and do things which you can only dream of! Strong, seductive images' O. Savvidis)
Her works are in the collections of big compagnies like Dow Chemical, BASF, Rank Xerox etc. and in a lot of private collections all over the world.
A critic wrote about her: This Zeeland artist shows that in art personality is more important than originality. (Sietse Postma, a well respected critic for KUNSTBEELD, an art-magazine in the Netherlands)
The jewelry made of rubber (latex) was represented in galeries in Paris, Barcelona (Forum Ferlandina) and Antwerp. It has also been showed in Paris in the collection of the Dutch famous fashiondesigner Aziz Bekkaoui.
Van Nieuwenhuijzen is autodidact.
