Painters 2015
Karin Voogd
There are great compositions here,”
Karin Voogd says, “You see a little
shop and maybe a cat outside waiting
desperately for food. The scenes here
sometimes remind me of 17th century
Dutch paintings; paintings by Hobbema,
Wouwermans, Pieter de Hooch.”
The long alleyways, the donkeys, the
people walking down the street, all
of it feels somewhat familiar to Karin.
Extremely talented with perspective
drawing and illustrating dimension,
she makes you feel as if you are walking
down the Shela alleyways together.
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Voogd was born in Leiden and lives
Rotterdam. As an admirer of the
paintings of Goya and Velazquez, she
studied Spanish Philology and Literature
at the Universiteit Leiden before
studying fine art at Willem de Kooning
Academie. She was nominated for the
Büning-Brongers-Prijs in 1995. In the
late eighties, she was amused by the
After Nature collective, initiated by
famous Dutch painter Peter Klashorst.
This group of artists was rebelling
against the conceptual art movement
of the time and insisted on painting
traditional themes such as nudes and
landscapes, by observation alone.
Voogd was intrigued by the group’s
anti-conformist attitude and followed
the career of one member, the artist
Jurriaan van Hall, a childhood friend,
but was not tempted to try her own
hand at plein air painting. She gives us
a little history lesson about the movement
telling us that, “later, a few of the
artists founded the Amsterdam Institute
for Painting (AIS) and stood at the
birth of what became the Noordwijk
Schilderfestival, and finally, in 1995,
the After Nature group split up.”
Voogd has tried her hand at journalism, teaching and curatorial projects (she curated an exhibition on art and brains in 1998). At the age of forty, after a long pause in her career as an artist, she began to paint again, and turned to serious plein air painting. Since then, she has participated in several painters’ festivals including the annual Noordwijk Festival (Winner of the Rembrandt Painting Award in 2011), through which she exhibited at the Museum Kranenburgh in Bergen and participated in the annual Usedom Openair “Sieben malen am Meer” event in Germany.
