Pauline Bakker - Masterclass Bergen 2016, work by Pauline Baker, Anna Mes, Erik Tierolf, Giorgi

Map of the Masterclass Bergen 2016 4 Beautiful Giclee by Pauline Baker, Anna Mes, Erik Tierolf and Giorgi Shengelia. All Giclee are numbered 37/50 All Giclee are H. 30 x W. 42 cm Pauline Bakker (1966) is a Dutch visual artist. She studied at d'Witte Lelie in Amsterdam. She has been working as a visual artist since 1997. She gained national fame with the television program Sterren op het Doek and with the repainting of the triptych for the Sint-Laurenskerk in Alkmaar. She painted the history of Alkmaar on 85 m² over the deteriorating replica by Maarten van Heemskerck. Anna Mes (Koog aan de Zaan, 1935) mainly makes large abstract works that stand out because the color areas are connected to each other like a patchwork. In these color areas one finds a lively visual language of surreal signs, incisions and remains of North Holland landscapes and buildings. Originally a textile designer, she masters many disciplines, including gouache. Mes' gouache works are much smaller and more introverted than her expressive canvases. Mes draws her inspiration from, among other things, her walks along the Kamperduinse beach near Alkmaar. During these walks along the coastline, she studies the light and the splendor of colors. In her compositions, that northern light keeps returning, with a bright, overexposed color scheme that almost looks Scandinavian. Not surprising, because she spent a considerable amount of time in Sweden. The creation of the paintings and work on paper takes place in small steps. Mes states: ''Everything revolves around feeling and organization. I am constantly organizing, nothing but organizing. And that is how I try to make things whole. My sadness, my drama, my love is in the landscape I look at. You can see from my work what is going on inside me. My canvases are not separate from my life.'' Erik Tierolf was born in 1963 in Renesse. He studied from 1982 to 1987 at the AKI Enschede. Since 1991 he has been making realistic work, preferably people and animals. He paints these with oil paint on canvas. The sea is also a source of inspiration for Tierolf. The expressiveness of his work lies in his choice of the representation he puts on the canvas. At first glance beautiful, realistic images that only at second glance reveal the existence of a deeper meaning through the alienated elements. With his work, Tierolf comments on all kinds of aspects of existence. Giorgi Shengelia was born in 1977 in the city of Sukhumi, Georgia. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi. Since 2003 Giorgi lives and works in Bergen, North Holland, a safe haven behind the dunes of the North Sea coast. Here Giorgi mainly makes paintings and mixed media. He also works on installations and sculptures. He is even active in photography. The amount of subjects Giorgi expresses in his work is endless: nature, city life, landscape, daily life, home, love, food, people, as I said: limitless. As a visual artist he is fascinated by the tensions and clashes between reality and the artificial, the visual and the intangible, the past and the future. Giorgi Shengelia's sensitive paintings range from abstract to figurative, wildly drawn or with great precision, on canvas, paper or wood. All different sizes. His expressive sculptures are often made of steel and objects from the scrap heap. Making art, celebrating life and living in freedom are Giorgi's key words for now and the future.