The Shadow of Narcissus

Francien Krieg

2024 • Netherlands • Oil on Wood

24 x 20 in

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Francien Krieg

Netherlands

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Artwork details

Medium : Oil on Wood
Other details : Artwork on wood. Framing on request.
Dimensions : 23.6x19.7in

About this artwork

In this painting, I explored the interplay of light and shadow, capturing a somber yet alluring aura around the subject. Her enigmatic gaze and the soft illumination highlight a duality within—simultaneously emerging from and receding into her own depths. By blending realism with semi-abstract elements, I sought to evoke a narrative of introspection and the complexity of human emotion. It's designed to add a introspective and profound energy to any… space.

Francien Krieg

Netherlands

Credentials

Prizewinner
Residency Participant
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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The Shadow of Narcissus

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