The paintings by Willemien Mostert are in a single colour. In the paint she created bumpy branches with side pockets.
It is as if plants are growing on the canvas. Yet it looks calm. The little branches are beautifully distributed across the painting, as if it were a pattern on fabric or on wallpaper. It is an image of something from nature: the underground roots of plants. At the same time, the paintings are slightly abstract: beautiful shapes in a landscape of paint.
Willemien Mostert (1982) studied Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. Sources of inspiration for her paintings and prints are structures, repeating patterns and the rhythm of plant growth patterns. In the series Rhizone, she seeks a balance between an ordered composition and the depiction of a natural wildness.
