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Ineke Vanderwal?Dutch
Silent as in Unspoken
2012
Signed (on rear)
Unframed
Oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm
Guide Price £600
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Ineke was born in Ophemert, The Netherlands.
From 1972 to the end of 2000 she lived and
worked in the UK. She has exhibited extensively in
both public and private galleries. Her work is hung
in the New Hall Art sCollection (Cambridge) and in
the Southwest Minnesota State University,
Marshall, U.S.A, Museum of Modern Art, as well as
in many private collections.
I came to the UK in the early 1970s as a very young student. My academic
career came to an abrupt stand-still with the unplanned birth of my
daughter. I later resumed studies through evening classes. My personal
experience and determination to get myself an academic education
pales significantly against the 80-year record of academic support
offered by CARA. I feel privileged as an artist to be able to contribute
to its work and believe passionately in the need for education
for everyone, regardless of gender, wherever, and under any and
all circumstances.
The title of this work Silent as in Unspoken seems rather apt to me
given the purpose for which it will help to raise funds. Inherent to the
painting is the silent voice quietly waiting, as yet unformed and
unarticulated. Un-spoken. Emerging from beneath layers of paint is a
slight figure, visible and apparent in a suggestive light.
ineke vanderwal
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