About me
Antoinette van de Wal (1958)
Graduated from the Institut supérieur de peinture VAN DER KELEN LOGELAIN (1991 – 1992), with a medaille d’argent.
Graduated in 2015 from the Academie voor Kunst en Ambacht and received the title fine art master painter.
Lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Artist member of Pulchri Studio
My work
Antoinette van de Wal is a Dutch painter and member of Pulchri Studio in The Hague. Her work explores the vital and mysterious power of nature — not as an idyllic landscape, but as a living, ever-changing force.
Using traditional pigments and self-prepared materials, she creates paintings with a tactile and layered quality. Large canvases filled with organic shapes and deep shades of green reveal how paint, light, and motion merge into their own natural rhythm.
Her paintings invite a moment of stillness — to sense the quiet energy of growth, decay, and renewal present in every part of nature. Her work is regularly exhibited at Pulchri Studio and in galleries throughout the Netherlands, where it is recognized for its depth, color intensity, and serene strength.
Layers
Colour, texture and organic forms come together in my work to form a complex visual web. This layered quality can refer to processes of transience, weathering and the movement of time. The Japanse philosophy of wabi-sabi is very close to my way of thinking: imperfection in the right place.
Paint skin
By making my own paint I explore the materiality of my subject to an even greater depth. I work with centuries-old recipes and materials like damar, rabbit skin glue, chalk, eggs, nut oil and pigments. I also prepare my own surfaces for painting. This process is an important part of my work. This way my work becomes an extension of myself and it gains a structure that is unique.
It has a soul.
In the interaction of materials and myself the raw quality of the creative process can still be seen. My work is not polished, but it is certainly carefully considered.
