Dutch based painter Anke Roder lives and works near Groningen, in 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 anchors 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.
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