Edith Snoek

Warande 29
2404 HR Alphen aan den Rijn
06-54271741
edith@edithsnoek.nl
www.edithsnoek.nl

• 1958 born in Gorinchem, Holland.
• 1978 - 1983 teacher training Visual Arts
• 1998 - 2003 Royal Academy of Art in The Hague

Edith Snoek is working on various series. Especially known are her girls and young women. Vulnerability, beauty and alienation are her starting point. She often achieves this by painting several almost identical “portraits” side by side. The models are not real persons, but because of their way of painting they are abstract and universal. They seem hypothermic, in thought, dreamy, in themselves.

Since Edith started living and working in Zeeland in 2019, she has started painting landscapes. Because of Corona she had plenty of time to take long walks, explore the landscape and put all her impressions on canvas in her studio. Silent canvases were created, often wide and empty. Sometimes with people, sometimes not. Vulnerability is also the theme here.

In addition to the substantive side, Edith is also interested in the painterly aspect within her work. She does not shy away from experimenting, paint is applied pasty but also or glazed in many layers. Cleaning, sanding, scraping and breaking are part of the process. Her color palette is almost always “ton sur ton” The series Women portraits originated next to the landscapes. The girls became young women, their skins a game of paint.