About
Janny Pieck-Plantinga was born in 1956 in Gorredijk, Netherlands. She is a master graduate of the Classical Academy of Visual Arts and lives and works in Friesland. Her work is held in private collections, and she has exhibited in both group and solo shows nationally and internationally. In her practice, Pieck-Plantinga works across portraiture, landscape, and still life. She explores how reality, personal experience, and fantasy merge to create images that invite reflection. In her series Ode to Nature, she investigates organic forms and the growth processes of plants and flowers, as well as the emotional undercurrents of natural landscapes. Her paintings are built from multiple layers, with each work translating emotion through color and form. She works toward making the invisible visible, finding wonder in what appears simple on the surface.
JANNY PIECK-PLANTINGA (1956)
Visual artist/ Contemporary Classical Painter
Master graduated from the Classical Academy of Visual Arts
lives and works in Friesland, has participated in several exhibitions both nationally and internationally, both group and solo, work in private collections.
For a detailed CV and exhibition overview see www.jannypieck-plantinga.nl
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see” - Edgar Degas.
In my work, I want to show the beauty of apparent simplicity and make the invisible visible.
A portrait, landscape, or still life invites me to tell their story.
Reality, personal experiences, and fantasy merge to create an image that resonates and invites self-reflection.
In my paintings Ode to Nature (organic forms), I explore the layers of nature. The growth process of flowers and plants, or the mystical aspect of an apparently beautiful natural area that begs to be painted. Looking over the landscape, I experience the underlying emotions that come in hard or subtle ways.
Making the invisible visible, the guiding theme. In my work, I translate the emotion with my own touch in paint and build the painting up from multiple layers. This evokes wonder through apparent simplicity.
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