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Esther Barend: Follow Your Dreams, 2019

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BAREND_FollowYourDreams150x120DAF favourite Esther Barend, has a solo exhibition called “Follow Your Dreams” currently showing at Artclub Gallery in Paris, France.

“Barend has an unstoppable need to paint. The paintings in her abstract series are mostly autobiographical in nature, inspired by her rich and complex inner world, her current emotions and contemporary events. The portraits in her figurative series are open-minded reflections of perfect imperfections.”

Artist Bio
Esther Barend was born in an artistic family in the Netherlands. After finishing her studies,  established herself as a designer of jewellery in Eindhoven (The Netherlands). Several years later she started classes at the Academy of Fine Arts. After 3 years she felt she had to go her own way. She started experimenting day in, day out and developed her own distinctive style through the years. After living in Paris, Amsterdam and Antwerp, she nowadays works and lives in the Valencia-region (Spain) and her paintings can be found in private and corporate collections from the USA, all over Europe, The Middle-East, China, Japan to Australia.  (courtesy of artist’s website)

To see more of Esther Barend’s work, visit estherbarend.eu.

Esther Barend: Girls In Paint

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Come-with-me-Esther-BarendDAF favourite Esther Barend has a new series of paintings entitled “Girls in Paint” – a fusion of the female portrait with her well known abstract style.

About Girls in Paint: “Long ago I started as a realistic painter. Then I radically switched from oil to acrylics and at the same time into abstracts. I love painting my abstracts, and I will continue making new abstracts in my own recognizable and hopefully ongoing evolving style. But I always wanted to find a way to amalgamate the two styles, and with the Girls in Paint series I finally succeeded! Since the beginning of mankind our lives are filled with finery to make it more beautiful and interesting, Humans want to distinguish themselves from others by their rituals, clothing, equipment, cars etc… but even in all this apparently we seem more alike than we would like. The abstract parts in my paintings not only represent the finery but can be also compared with the visualisation of a sensation or thoughts.”

A selection of “Girls in Paint” is on show now at Bloom – Creative Industries Art Show in Cologne (Köl) , Germany through November 1, 2011.

Barend currently lives and works in Belgium and is represented by Artishox Gallery and Artishopix in Hasselt Belgium.  To see more, visit EstherBarend.eu or her blog at EstherBarend.Blogspot.com.

Esther Barend: Abstract and Portable Art

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It’s been over a year since I last caught up one of my favourite abstract artists – Netherlands based Esther Barend. Since that time she has been busy moving to a new studio, exhibiting in numerous solo and group shows, and creating a series of new paintings and portable art bags.

Barend’s vivid paintings are created by mixing the paint colours on the canvas with a lot of layers both thick and thin, resulting in a spontaneous, intensely coloured,  yet balanced form of personal expression.

“Impulsions and Thoughts – Running Through My Head” (the featured image above) actually has four sides. The image shown here  is Esther’s favourite.  “It reflects the vortex of impressions, impulsions, and thoughts running through my head, together with the feelings running through my heart.  The world literally is getting smaller every day. There are positive and negative aspects to this.  The negative ones give me feelings of sadness, powerlessness, and sometimes anger. Often they confuse me because I cannot comprehend what people are capable of doing to each other. I prefer to focus on the positive aspects which warm my heart and give me the necessary wings to keep going. That is why the main colour of this painting is red.”

Barend has also created a new series of her fantastic one-of-a-kind art bags.  “These art-bags are much more wearable, functional, and durable than the first collection. Although they are unique pieces of art, valuable and vulnerable, you can still walk in the rain without having to worry!”

Esther’s next exhibition is at Gallery Tatiana Tournemine in Paris starting at the end of January 2011.

To see more of Esther Barend’s work or to inquire about her art bags, visit EstherBarend.eu.  You can also check out her blog at EstherBarend.Blogspot.com.