Tessel Braam is a visual artist who works with oil paint and charcoal. By painting modern geometric figures and portraits in combination with natural organisms, she looks for the contrast between modern human culture and its natural origins.

In nature everything has a purpose. Everything contributes to a cycle and all things stand in relationship to each other. Death creates new life and is part of a circular course. Originally, water, oxygen, organisms, plants, animals and humans were all connected in a balanced natural system.

In her work, Tessel Braam questions the current role of humanity in this natural cycle and she investigates its natural origins in today’s modern times. In her paintings, modern times are overgrown by fungus and mosses, the big cleaners of the planet. Her work shows organisms taking complete control in order to prove our essential origin.

At This Art Fair Braam will show a new series of paintings. The images represent nature finding its way back into this time again. We see overgrown abandoned old cities, portraits of established people and unnatural objects overgrown with fungus and moss. Philosophers, politicians, and scientists symbolize the ‘thinkers’ of our societies, but in Tessel Braams’ paintings they are taken over by nature as the fungus grows out of ears and noses.