Roosmarijn Schoonewelle

Roosmarijn Schoonewelle (Horn, 1980) primarily works on paper. Her drawings are entering the field of both figuration and abstraction. They tell a specific narrative, however the underlying messages remain obscure. A range of moods is reflected equally in the intimate and fierce drawings. Each person feels the boundary of its existence. Where are we going and what's left? The work she makes stems from Schoonewelle’s wonder about life. Doubt, longing and a sense of the absurd are major sources of inspiration.

The drawings are narrative, without a clear message to convey. They represent a mood or feeling. They are landscapes and still lives, where sometimes the configuration, then the abstraction predominates. Recurring features are mountains, clouds, animal figures and geometric and organic shapes. A sense of harmony and connection or the lack thereof are recurrent motifs.

Schoonewelle has a fascination for nature and how people relate to it. Man as being void, who by its enormous curiosity tries to map and conquer the world, yet also destroys and loses. What fascinates her is mankind’s wish to comprehend everything the earth offers, while at the same time this wish contributes to the destruction of it all. The drawing itself is a quest for meaning.

In 2005 Schoonewelle graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2009, the work of Schoonewelle took part of the international group exhibition at Le Jeune Création 2009 CENT QUATRE - 104 in Paris. In February 2011 Schoonewelle exhibited solo with an installation in C3 called Large Body of Water.