International Color Awards

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Fine Art winners

IJtocht - nest, 2021 Honorable Mention
Title:IJtocht - nest, 2021
One off a series off compressed nudes seeking a vanishing point to eventually, perhaps, merge into nature


Ellen Kooi
Netherlands



Biography: At first glance, the people that inhabit my panoramas of (mostly Dutch) landscapes seem to be at the mercy of their surroundings. But if you look more carefully you can see a more complex relationship, as the landscape responses to its inhabitants. You may see the displays of nature as a reflection of the inner turmoil’s of these people. Or maybe it is the other way around. Anyway, one can’t do without the other. I tell about myths and chance encounters, in a language between fantasy and reality. Space, and the experience of space, are constant factors.