Dutch based painter Anke Roder lives and works on the coastal plains, near Groningen, in northern Holland. The landscape paired back to an austere simplicity, has inspired her with two rich seams to mine – seascapes and plants.
Her encaustic seascapes, sensuous satin slabs anchored along a welded horizon, ooze light. The ancient beeswax and pigment technique, applied in molten layers, conveys a contained elemental energy, loading the northern colours within a saturated interior. Rendering down sea and sky to a semi-abstract geometry, Roder’s work, anchored in observation, convinces, rewards and delights the patient eye. Seasons, light and weather are all here, distilled through a northern romantic sensibility into beautiful paintings, crafted from simple materials transformed.
Anke Roder studied at the Academy of Arts in Maastricht and the Royal Academy of Art and Design, ’s- Hertogenbosch. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections.