Trijnie Goudriaan

In 1985 Trijnie Goudriaan obtained her Master’s degree at the Academy of Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands. She has been active ever since as an independent artist in her studio in Wageningen. Her work radiates empethatic observation of vulnerability: an insect, an half decomposed leaf or an old weathered wall. She keeps searching for the narrow path between melancholy and optimism. Melancholy because deterioration is inevitable, optimism as life is irresistable.
Her paintings refer to reality, but they are not meant to be exact. Rather, the paintings represent themselves. They express the mere love for life which the artist has experienced during her observations, by using color arrangement, positioning of lines and surface texture.