Biography of Jacomijn den Engelsen

Jacomijn den Engelsen is mainly concerned with making woodcuts, printed on paper or on canvas, in color and often in, for the graphic art, unusually large formats. Her motives derives Jacomijn den Engelsen to the Visual and physical experience of its immediate surroundings, such as the place where she lives and works and the people in her proximity. They observe and submit its experiences through photography and drawing, to later to convert the results in woodcut. Jacomijn den Engelsen has a long-standing fascination with what grows on the piece of land at her house. A microcosm where all life processes occur in private. They sow and grow plants there, which they want to use for her work. It is not sentimental, but an honest place. There is color, light and dark, and the birds have their nests. There is also damage, rot, decay and animal carcasses. From this environment and by following and studying what there here occur, Jacomijn den Engelsen come to the motives where they now are working: the vigour from the light, the solidified moment, the moment of farewell.