My name is Désirée Dekkers. I live in The Netherlands.
For about 33 years ago I had a drawing-teacher on Highschool, who was very patient.
He, as an artist, knew oh so well that inspiration was a thing that comes and goes as it pleases.
So for weeks I was sitting on the table chatting my time away, until the inspiration came along and I had to work every spare minute.
But since I left Highschool I had not drawn or painted anything.
One day my husband saw some of the drawings I had made during my Highschool-periode and was impressed.
So 3 years ago he bought me a starting-set of drawing-materials and gave that as a birthday present.
The first half year I started to experiment.
I was mostly entriged by the pastels. I had never worked with that medium before, but it felt good rightaway.
I took about 10 lessons with a local artist to learn more about pastel and how to work with it on paper.
From there my journey of experimenting continued. And I also started to combine other materials with pastel.
I got inspired by the impressionists and other great painters like William Henry Singer. He also worked with pastel on canvas. Something I want to try out one day for sure!
Beside this I read “The Pastel Journal” and became a member of PGE, to learn from the way how other artists perform.
And whenever there is a exposition of pastel paintings in my surroundings, I will pay a visite.
For my paintings I get my inspiration out of the things that strike me in daily live. Therefore the subject of my paintings differ much.
Read the full article in the pastel scribbler of february 2010:
http://pastelnews.com/2010/02/newsletter-the-pastel-scribbler-feb-2010/
http://pastelnews.com/2010/02/newsletter-the-pastel-scribbler-feb-2010/
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