陈列您的艺术作品给每天无数的访客观看

Lita van Engelenhoven has developed a personal way of painting. Her paintings offer a silent view on reality. A reality that gives a certain feeling, an atmosphere, a silence. The way of painting is important. This reflects in the skin of the painting, the intensity and the relationship between the forms and the colours. Years ago painting was a great physical effort. Now she is sitting at her painter's easel and constructs her paintings, layer over layer, from dark to light. At present it's important for her to paint according to traditional methods; she investigates the way the light falls on the colour, the form and the subject. A new starting point.

Her compositions are set against backdrops executed in colours unique to the artist that are blending with powerful but discrete turquoises, warm browns and yellows.Because of her attention to the relationship between the forms and the colours she uses, her paintings often show a sensitive and vulnerable atmosphere.

Her portraits are a good example of this. Universal portraits, not refering to reality or a certain person. These portraits have a minimum of communication towards the spectator. They keep there own individuality and do not invite to action. The eyes of the spectator can read the portrait as a poem. The portraits are showing a mixture of melancholy and a certain pride. The spectator seeks the eyes of the portrait and in this way they are starting a dialogue, which can evoke emotions. The face is the place where inside and oudside, man and world, nature and soul meet each other. In this way we are looking to a portrait and go through an emotion.

The title of the painting refers to the content rather than to the representation.The painting arises from the world of the artist. He takes the spectator into his world, to show the wealth and variety of that world. The painter takes us to a world which we never knew before. The making of a painting is a cutout of daily life. When the painting is finished, it feels as if it has existed for ever. Only the maker knows what it was before it found its present form. This process is often a laborious one. The painting brings up questions that need an answer. Sometimes the whole painting changes because of a small addition. It seems there is a certain mystery context between the parts of the painting. "It looks so easy, but nevertheless it feels as if my life depends on it", says the painter about her work.
Van Engelenhoven says: "I paint the silent things that surround me".

Title website: "PAINTED THOUGHTS"

Nude

2006
oil on canvas
70 x 70

Girl

2006
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm

portrait of a woman

2007
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm

Portrait with blue hat

2007
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm

Queen

2006
oil on canvas
50 x 60 cm

Going to Venice

2006
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm

Shall we dance

2006
oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm

The duke of Venice

2008
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm

Hopefully waiting for you

2008
oil on canvas
60 x 70 cm

Warm trees

2008
oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm

Le parfum du Midi

2007
acryl on canvas
70 x 70 cm

Vista

2008
acryl on canvas
50 x 40 cm

Les bons moments

2008
acryl on canvas
40 x 50 cm

Bois des amants

2008
acryl on canvas
60 x 70 cm

World of colors

2009
acryl on canvas
50 x 40 cm

Colorful lane

2009
acryl on canvas
50 x 40 cm

The beauty of summer

2009
acryl on canvas
50 x 40 cm

A perfect day

2008
acryl on canvas
30 x 40 cm

Magnolia

2007
oil on canvas
100 x 120 cm