image size 118 X 44.5
frame size 141 X 69.5
list Yes
technique screen printing
art type Category B 575 to 1025
style figurative
inventory A
list type 85 SZI
orientation landscape
size medium
Jacqueline SchSfer lives and works in Amsterdam. There she also took her final exams at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1989. Until that moment, painting was mainly something she did for herself and shared only with few others. A means of expression. When she discovered that it was also a means of communication, it gave her an extra dimension to painting. During her studies she went in search of a formal language that suited her. She found her own style there and developed it over the years. Her work is now very recognizable through the play of clear shapes, bright colors and strongly defined, black contours divided into harmonious areas of color.
She has opted for the figurative, but not realistic image. She creates a world in which the shapes of her figures are recognizable and very personal. The themes of her paintings vary from cheerful, strange fantasy birds, static and subdued still lifes to female nudes. The latter mainly depict her own feelings and moods and in that sense can almost be called self-portraits.
Since 2004, the artist has also made figurines of, among others, the Strange Birds. For her, this is a new artistic challenge that she hopes to develop even further in the future, in addition to painting. SchSfer's clear and positive love for life in a complex modern society is evident in all her work.