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Sep 15

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What changes when you take the colour away?

While working on a painting, I sometimes take a quick black-and-white photograph to check the tonal values. Without colour, it becomes easier to see how the lights and darks relate to one another—and whether the image still has enough depth.

For this post, I tried it with a completed painting from my Swimming Ponds series, which I began in 2014. Swipe to see the painting as it is: in colour.

🖼️ Underneath – Clouded was also reproduced as a double-page spread on pages 34–35 of my book:

A Book of Paintings – Landscapes of the In-Between
Een Boek van Schilderijen – Landschappen aan de buitenrand
(NL/EN, 2021)

Which version do you prefer: black and white or colour? 🙂

Underneath – Clouded (Swimming Pond No. 5)
2017–2018 · acrylic and oil on linen · 105 × 145 cm
Corporate collection, Amsterdam

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Sep 10

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Tomorrow I’ll be seeing this painting again for the first time in four years.

Nature’s Secret Game I (Sunflowers nr. 12) was painted in 2022 as the first small version in preparation for a large painting that followed a year later. Since then, it has been in a private collection.

Tomorrow we’ll meet again at the opening of Into the Woods, the inaugural exhibition at the new @museummore location at Twickel. The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, September 12.

𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙎𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩 𝙂𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙄 (𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙣𝙧 12)
𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
𝟰𝟬 𝘅 𝟱𝟬 𝗰𝗺
𝗮𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱

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Aug 6

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Swimming Pond Nr.10
2022
Acrylic and oil on linen
105 × 150 cm
Private collection

Swimming Pond Nr.10 was painted on commission in 2022 and has been part of a private collection ever since.
This September, four years later, the painting will be on public view for the very first time as part of *Into the Woods*, the inaugural exhibition at Museum MORE’s new location Twickel.

I’m delighted that this work, which has quietly lived in a private home since it was completed, will now be shared with a wider audience.

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Jul 2

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The Wind That Shakes the Dune Grass II in its new surroundings / 2025-2026 / 110 x 200 cm / acrylic and #oil on linen / private #artcollection #art in the #home

Always nice to see a #painting land in a new place, from the studio where it was created and fitted so naturally.
This photo is from a week ago, but I still wanted to share it with you all. ...

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Mei 21

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I just made my first post on @_echo_beach_ a nice-looking new #socialmedium for #artlovers #artists #artcollectors! I chose one from the pool painting series to kick things off.

I won’t be leaving this platform, but will be using both in the future. If you like to join: find me ‘@isabellawerkhoven’ #contemporaryart

❓What do you think: will you be joining Echo beach (also a great song by Martha & the Muffins, by the way) too?❓ ...

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Mei 2

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Interview 🎤met het kunstenaarsduo Bloklugthart - makers van De Digitale Rivier (2001) op de #tentoonstelling Isabella Werkhoven - THIS IS NOT A SOLO in Pictura Groningen. In dit filmpje vertellen ze hoe het is om als stel samen kunst te maken.
Interview 🎤 with the artists duo BlokLugthart — creators of The Digital River (2001) on the exhibition Isabella Werkhoven - This Is Not a Solo at Pictura Groningen. In this small film they tell about what it’s like to make art together as a couple.
#artisttalk #contemporaryart #art #artistlife
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Apr 17

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The last minute switch: #painting Star Forest out and #canvas Take Two of The Balcony Scene (Blossom Series) in.

Now on view at Isabella Werkhoven - This Is Not a Solo (Pictura Groningen), until May 3. #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #artcollector ...

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Apr 16

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A video tour (with voice over in Dutch) through the #exhibition This Is Not a Solo - Mise-en-scène of a Memoir @pictura_groningen with @elsahartjesveld @bethnamenwirth @flenferink @simeonnijenhuis @henk.olijve @bloklugthart @paulklemann @geervanderklugt @corinehormannphotography @miedema.hessel @siebedeboer @vittorioroerade @hans_de__wit #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #artcollector #hedendaagsekunst ...

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Apr 13

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Today I came across this painting again in the studio, among other works in progress.
While going through pieces I meant to continue, I suddenly rediscovered this one.

Started in 2019, but never finished.
The title had already been there: Glare.

Seeing it now feels strangely current — perhaps influenced by the memoir-like atmosphere of my ongoing exhibition This Is Not a Solo, and the recently concluded Gronings Licht.

I think I’ll return to this one soon.

50 × 65 cm, acrylic and oil on linen

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Apr 2

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A detail from an early painting, now on view at the exhibition I curated: This Is Not a Solo - Mise-en-scène of a Memoir in Pictura Groningen

Slow-Motion / 2003 / 85 x 95 cm / oil on linen /

I’ve been noticing how many people respond to this one.

The stillness, and the sense that something has just happened — or is about to — has been central to my work from the beginning.

Hadn’t seen this painting in years before I took it out of my stock for this special occasion. Nice to see it again.

When you’re in Pictura at the show: you can find it in the ‘3D-Chapter’ (‘Chapter’/Room 2 out of 5) of this exhibition as a memoir titled: ‘The 2000s Room’

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Mrt 30

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The Wind That Shakes The Dune Grass II is now finished — after over a year of work.

110 × 200 cm of acrylic and oil on linen — a landscape that doesn’t exist, yet somehow feels familiar. When I shared details of this painting over the past months, people kept saying it gave them that feeling of being on one of the Dutch Wadden Islands. Which is funny, because I changed almost everything: the composition, the light, and especially the colour — warm, almost Mediterranean, closer to a Renaissance palette than the pale, grey-green tones you actually find there.

The great mullein plants in the foreground do grow on the islands — but not there, and never this tall. A year and a half ago I painted a small version of this subject, and I knew I wanted to return to it on a much larger scale — large enough that you feel you could actually step into it. For a long time the painting hung in my studio nearly untouched, while I figured out how to complete the composition — how much to add, and what to leave alone.

More about what’s coming soon.

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Mrt 24

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A small, early key to the atmospheric, cinematic Cosmic Wood series:

A Hundred Light Years Ago / 2005 /
Oil on paper / 39 × 56.5 cm
Private collection

The first and smaller painting in what would later become the four-part Cosmic Wood series.

It reaches back to the small wood in the text of my 2021 monograph A Book of Paintings — an early image that would continue to resonate through later works.

Now on view only during This Is Not a Solo at @pictura_groningen, on special loan from its owner. A rare chance to see where this series began.

One of the smaller works in the exhibition, but a key one.

>> Only on view through 3 May.<<

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