Leaning on honesty

Francien Krieg

2025 • Netherlands • Oil on Canvas

66 x 35 in

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Francien Krieg

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Artwork details

Medium : Oil on Canvas
Other details : Unmounted artwork. Mounting and/or framing available on request.
Dimensions : 66.1x34.6in

About this artwork

Three figures intertwine, each leaning into the other, fragile yet unwavering. Their weight is both burden and support, revealing the paradox of intimacy: to carry and to be carried. “Leaning on Honesty” suggests that truth itself is such a structure — uncomfortable, heavy at times, but the only foundation strong enough to hold us. In their pale vulnerability, the bodies embody the rawness of honesty, showing how it both exposes and sustains us.

Francien Krieg

Netherlands

Credentials

Prizewinner
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Works on commission

« My work captures the beauty, the power and the vulnerability of the human condition. »

Francien Krieg is a Dutch painter whose work explores the human body as a place where time, vulnerability, strength and uncertainty become visible.

For many years, she was known for her paintings of aging female bodies, questioning conventional ideas of beauty, shame and visibility. In recent years, her focus has widened. She now paints young men, boxers, floating figures, sleeping bodies and adolescents caught between childhood and adulthood.

Krieg is interested in the body not as an ideal form, but as something fragile, strange and honest. Her paintings often show people when the mask begins to slip: a boxer after the fight, a boy floating in water, a figure resting, withdrawing, resisting or giving in.

Her work moves between tenderness and discomfort, beauty and unease. Her painting process has also become more direct and colourful, with a growing use of alla prima painting that brings immediacy, risk and energy into the surface.

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Leaning on honesty

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