Lorena Kloosterboer is a member of the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory
Lorena Kloosterboer is a Dutch Argentine artist (born in the Netherlands, 1962) painting contemporary realist and hyperrealist Still Lifes. She seeks to capture the fascinating interactions between colours, light, shadows, textures and reflections, and unite them in visual poetry.
Highly inspired by the still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age, Lorena Kloosterboer depicts a variety of subject matter striving for an elegant, timeless yet contemporary look. Over time she has adapted classical skill-based methods to suit painting in acrylics.
Her paintings are based on symbolism which convey her thoughts about life through metaphors and symbolic meaning universally ascribed to her subject matter. This symbolism—representing higher ideals, such as wisdom, awareness, and growth—may not be immediately obvious, yet she believes these messages reach the consciousness of those open to them.
Lorena Kloosterboer paints Still Lifes accompanied by flora and fauna. Her compositions look convincingly tangible, even though they don’t exist in real life as such. The paintings she’s best known for are her Still Lifes with birds in a series entitled Tempus ad Requiem which means ‘Time to Rest’ in Latin. The series of Still Lifes with non-feathered animals is called Tempus Memores which means ‘Time to Remember’ in Latin.
Another series, Virtus Aquae—’The Power of Water’ in Latin—she describes as ‘still lifes in motion’ depicting scenarios in which a kingfisher scoops its meal out of a decorative bowl, dramatically trailing a sparkling splash of water. Her latest series Tempus Amoris—which means ‘Time to Love’—is inspired by the porcelain apples made by the Royal Blue Collection ® created in traditional Delft craftmanship.
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