Marloes Roeper shares a booth with Elise van Staveren
Two paintings depict the horizon: one shows the sun rising over the east coast, the other the sun setting on the west coast of Texel. As a child, I walked to school with the first rays of winter sunlight on my face, and returned home with the last light at my back. This daily sequence repeated itself, yet each day felt new. When I return there now, that phenomenon remains unchanged.
While closely observing my everyday surroundings, I am struck by objects, forms and compositions that evoke my desire to paint. Although there is always a personal anecdote underlying this observation, this desire is triggered by my fascination with the possibility of evoking meaning with a few brushstrokes.
Most of these are daily observations, for instance of raindrops on a window or reflections on the water. Moments that allow me to experience stillness, not because they are soundless, but because they exist beyond time, as it were.
I isolate these moments from their context and then incorporate them in my paintings to hang on to them forever. In doing so, I not only preserve the images themselves, but also the associations and memories that go with them.
