PANACEUM ART EXHIBITIONS: GERA WOLTJER

 

About the artist

 

Gera Woltjer was born in the Netherlands, and has lived in Geraldton since early 2008. She holds a Master in Visual Arts from the Arnhem Institute of the Arts in the Netherlands.

She has exhibited extensively across The Netherlands in galleries and in a museum. Gera Woltjer lectured in Art and Art Education at the University (Marnix) in Utrecht. She has contributed as a co-author of a visual art program for Primary Education for a Publisher of Educational Literature in the Netherlands

 

Untitled, 2008

Ink, ecoline, bleach on rice paper

 

The Geraldton Medical Group currently features artworks that were created in series using different themes:

 

Flying Hands, WA 2006

The objects shown on these photos are made with simple latex gloves. One series with the tracks on the hands are inspired by the tracks found in Aboriginal paintings.  For both series several beautiful beaches in WA formed the backdrop for these performances.

 

Dream Floaters, Netherlands, 2005

In 2005 Gera Woltjer worked with a group of artists. They actually made their dreams of art pieces to become true.
The artists made work that was directly inspired by their dreams. These objects are inspired by a fascination with water and they are the results of experiments on the water surface. The objects are photographed floating on the dark water of a pond during winter in the Netherlands.

 

Seeds, pods and found shapes on beach 2008/2009

Gera Woltjer draws and paints using the seedpods and shells she has found around Australia and Geraldton as her inspiration. Some of these nature inspired works have recently been exhibited in the Netherlands. She uses a variety of different, often experimental, techniques to make her artworks. 

Proudly United. Poinciana I, 2008

Graphite, colour pencils, felt pen, collage

 

Lifelines, 2008
The two large artworks are part of a series of six. They are painted on rice paper using a technique that allows ink to flow across the surface Gera controls and manages the current of ink with pencils and sticks allowing the different styles of music that she listens to to dictate lines and shapes until a sense of balance in direction, rhythm, forms and lines is reached. Finally a work of peace and balance is created. 

 

Moving Life Lines III, 2008

Ink on rice paper

All artworks are for sale. Please ask for the catalogue at the front desk.

Studio: 1 Whitfield Place Geraldton

Email: gerawoltjer@bigpond.com