Her name is Boot and she paints boats, for Maja a boat is synonymous with rest. During her stay on Vlieland and Terschelling she saw the boats dry up at low tide and imagined a forced stay in such a boat as ultimate bliss for a while’ not be’. In Brittany she systematically painted the rough, pure landscape for years on end. The colours, the stones, the beach and the water were her source of inspiration. Text: Josette Berg
She paints the sea and her food. Sardines, shrimps, mussels, oysters. During her working holidays on the Wadden Islands and when the mudflats dry up, she collects oysters and eats the mussels from the bows of the boats. To eat and to model her canvases as a still life. Maja is a master of using a palette knife and brush to keep things to their simplest form. Text: Josette Berg
The landscape is an enormous source of inspiration for the Dutch painter Maja Boot.
These works are about nature or an abstract representation of it.
It is increasingly about feeling form and color and the looseness of her painting.
I like spaces that feel earthy but belong to heaven.
Canopies, beach houses, domes and verandas. Attempts to bound spaces that cannot be bounded.
Attempts to make the elusive tangible. The heavenly houses overlook that which is vulnerable… a place for the soul.
Maja
In haar nieuwe werk heeft Maja de kracht in haarzelf ontdekt met meer kleur en vertrouwen in haar licht wat ze doorgeeft in haar schilderijen. Haar spontane karakter gecombineerd met de kennis van techniek.
Haar atelier is in de buitenlucht tussen de bloemenweides op de Eng in Blaricum waar het vlindergefladder, bijengezoem en vogelgezang haar begeleiden.
Voor de Nederlandse schilder Maja Boot is het landschap een enorme inspiratiebron. Deze werken gaan over de natuur of een abstracte weergave ervan. Het gaat steeds meer over gevoel vorm en kleur en de losheid van haar schilderkunst.
Art inspires.
A personal note with which you feel a connection.
The fabrics from Maja Boot are very suitable to provide your interior with a warm feeling.
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