- Education: ABK Minerva.
- Member of VBKN (Vereniging Botanische Kunstenaars Nederland).
- Nearly everything is a coincidence.
- Elias Canetti
- Glenn Gould
- Pierre Joseph Redouté
- Max Ernst
- Jean Tinguely
- Meret Oppenheim
- Franz Kafka
- Karl Blossfeldt
- And you.
Ineke Smeets
My studio is my laboratory.
I am an observer, pay attention to details, want to see everything and display this on paper.
I want to get as close as possible.
Accuracy and precision, that is how I like it: it has to be correct.
But occasionally, better still,
I reshape that world to create a possibly non-existing world,
a world in which absurdity reigns supreme.
A melting pot of shreds of human, animal and/or landscape.
Because increasingly there is an uncontrollable craving to put everything in a new framework.
I want to be right there, on top of the skin,
one that breaths;
wrinkles, folds and shines.
Along the way, during this quest, something might originate that makes a person smile.
CV
Inspiration
