Grey summer breeze

GREY SUMMER BREEZE

Piece description from the artist

Typical Dutch sea and beach landscape. I made this artwork in the spring of 2015, because it seemed an appropriate time of the year. All of my artworks are inspired by weathered walls with posters, peeling paint and all kinds of things in dilapidation.
I try to create something new, something beautiful with these elements in my work.
This particular artwork is part of the Collages series. These collages are built up with all kinds of pictures, photos and images that I have collected over the years.
I start an artwork by creating a base layer and splashing or stamping watercolor or acrylic paint onto the surface. Some of the works are created by only arranging photographs in a certain way. Other collages are created by transferring images that are pulled loose or torn from another source: old and torn, outworn and weathered, layer upon layer.

Materials used:
paper, acrylic, glue

Other works by Db Waterman

About Db Waterman

Eindhoven, Netherlands

I assemble original photography, assorted papers, acrylics, oil, charcoal, ink, and pencil in my works. The variety of resources I am able to use has proved indispensable to me. The biggest challenge the collage medium posed was its unforgiving lack of transparency. Finding a way to replicate the effects of transparency afforded by paint, especially watercolors, was a large victory for me. The preparing labor shows through in my collages; layer upon layer of material remains visible in the finished pieces. I believe my body of work is characterized by my skill for reinvention. Having always loved the appearance of weathered walls plastered with peeling paint and old posters, I revive this aesthetic with hopefully a keen and professional eye. The creative objective of my work is to “make something beautiful out of dilapidation.” My tableaus explore the dissonance between old and new materials, intertwined in the most beautiful way possible to create dreamlike and melancholy images.

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