Simone van Maurik
conceptual - figurative - graph - drawing - writing
I'm in love; on crafts. A book eagerly awaits completion. Drawing and writing, it's the same for me. Ink, paint, pencil shavings, graphite, a brush in a pot of brown water, a fountain pen fluttering over paper, spinning the wheel of the etching press. I like to shake the routine. I pack moments as packages, in texts and images.
I prefer to be in the graphics workshop. Or to draw in a park, or on a terrace. Also back portraits. An attitude says a lot. A cow leaning relaxed in one hip. An ant restlessly running like it's late, way too late.
As a drawing teacher I want to show students, give them self-confidence. I give them a push and let them go.
My graduation work at the academy was nominated. What is ugly, what is beautiful? Apparently it evoked an essential feeling. A little shake to reality.
My nose on paper. Study of Morandi, David Hockney but also from a book from the eighties with graphic structures in working drawings by architects.
