Abstract painting is a form of art that does not try to create an exact representation of a visionary reality, but uses surfaces, lines, colors, shapes, textures and gestural signs to achieve its effect. Nevertheless, such an abstract image can attract the person with its shapes. That is exactly what inspires me and is what drives me to paint such pictures.

In the Italian artistic culture, I feel very close to “Arte Povera”, particularly to the figure of Alighiero Boetti. Since many years of work, I can say that my artistic production has been influenced more by the Italian culture of living everyday life. I currently live in Turin, but the city where I was fully formed is Naples.

My pleasure. I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. first it was an art school, then an institute, an academy ...but the understanding that I am ready to devote my life to art came to me when I was about twenty years old, in St. Petersburg I met the artist Vasily Bratanjuk, he made me understand that art is not only inspiration but also hard work ... work of selv development.

I am a visual artist based in Israel. I have a BA in Arts and philosophy and an MA in philosophy. I remember the first time, many years ago, as I was walking down the street, I saw a mirror that was thrown-away. I stopped and picked it up, thinking about the fact that mirrors are unique surfaces, unlike canvas, paper, wood etc. because they are reflective. I thought about the ability to transform it into a work of art that is not indifferent to the people standing in front of it, and to the space it’s placed in.

I’ve enjoyed painting and drawing for as long as I can remember, but art hasn’t been a constant part of my life until recently. However I can’t say that me and my creativity haven’t kept in touch this whole time. I’ve been playing the piano, writing poems and short stories, making costumes for my dolls, making up small plays and musicals and reenacting them. I’ve also enjoyed photography. All of these are still my creative outlets. Was my hometown a source of inspiration? Well, yes, because everything around me was a major source of inspiration anywhere I went.

Noortje Stortelder is a visual artist and  lives, works  in Rotterdam. 

"I want to give the viewer a new experience. This experience is based on my own reality and search for life, meaning of existence and purpose on earth. Who am I in relation to time, space and other beings? How do others see themselves and me? I now frequently use photography and film as the basis of my work but I still think sculpturally. Layer over layer over layer, editing as a digital sculptor. Our reality is hugely complex and layer. I do not always know what my reality is and from that confusion my work arises."

I  caught up with Noortje on her work process  and the latest developments.