Acts of Love

Charrette van Eekelen's paintings are fabrications: scissored, stitched and painted to create persuasive descriptions of objects and space. Colours and textures are found and combined. Freehand embroidery draws lines, paint undulates surfaces. Close inspection reveals silkiness, rough weave, sheen and transparency. Wool and velvet contrast with the openness net and materiality produces the illusion of...