My paintings usually present themselves in series, where I prefer to work on multiple canvases or panels at the same time.

After making sketches, I collect photos and texts. Some works start with a concrete idea, filtered from sketches and descriptions of the atmosphere, other works arise from the act of painting or drawing itself.

The structures, the postures of figures take shape during the sketching but also are formed and dictated from the structure and texture that is present in the wood.

The choice of the surface, the empty panel is therefore important to suit to the image, the direction of the grain of the wood, influences and is part of the image itself.

During the process, the works influence each other as a cross-pollination. The wood, the difference in nuance, the vulnerability and the warmth of the material appeal to me very much.. The paint, the oil are absorbed into the wood, sometimes the panel absorbs part of the painting as a vague memory of what was, to be clearly present again in other places.

For me this works as a notation of time, the painting seems to change, a game of presence and absence.

My work is about change, figures and their environment in development. They are portraits of growing, inner images of a journey. They reveal and conceal themselves and the context in which they find themselves. Images that can change at any moment, fleetingly about growing, about not being there, about fantasies, inner experience and memories in the landscape.

Silent processes that suddenly come out and set the image in motion.

© Inge Bos 2025