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KAIROS III & IV
KAIROS V
KAIROS VI
KAIROS IX
KAIROS X
KAIROS XI
KAIROS XII
KAIROS XVI
KAIROS XVII
KAIROS XIX
KAIROS XX
KAIROS XXII
EIDOS I
EIDOS II
CERA I
DREAMING OF MOMA I
DREAMING OF MOMA II
DREAMING OF MOMA III
SALO I
SALO II
SALO III
NOSSA
SECA I
SECA II
SECA III
NOR I
NOR II
Verde 1
Verde 2
Verde 3
Verde 4
Verde 5
Verde 6
Een gedachte aan I
Een gedachte aan II
Een gedachte aan III
Een gedachte aan IV
Een gedachte aan V
Een gedachte aan VII
Een gedachte aan IV-IX
Casa da Ilda
Pedra do Campo I
Pedra do Campo II
Pedra do Campo III
Cecilia I
Cecilia II
Casa Sara
Untitled I
Untitled II
About
Rosa Peters, visual artist (studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy (2012) and lives and works in Rotterdam).
Her paintings are an ode to different places in time. In her mind she visits locations where she once was or where she may never be. Often Portugal (where she grew up) is her focus, but many other sites in the world are the centre of her attention.
While painting, her thoughts are fed by impressions as if through a camera with a long shutter speed. Painting different layers on top of each other, each layer represents a thought of a carefully selected place. The drying time between the layers of oil paint makes it a long process, creating even more time and an intense focus on the specific spot.
In the process of painting more and more thoughts on top of each other, the semi-transparent layers of oilpaint make the image become blurrier.
The work is a result of her experience and concentration during the long period it takes to work on a painting.
She approaches the place where she is not physically present at that moment from philosophical, geographical, historical and architectural viewpoints.
Her memories and thoughts about the location, the climate and the history of a place also play a part in the realization of the painting.
The paintings are finished when the intensity of the place in mind has vanished, when all possible thoughts have been discussed and processed on the canvas.
Her paintings are an ode to different places in time. In her mind she visits locations where she once was or where she may never be. Often Portugal (where she grew up) is her focus, but many other sites in the world are the centre of her attention.
While painting, her thoughts are fed by impressions as if through a camera with a long shutter speed. Painting different layers on top of each other, each layer represents a thought of a carefully selected place. The drying time between the layers of oil paint makes it a long process, creating even more time and an intense focus on the specific spot.
In the process of painting more and more thoughts on top of each other, the semi-transparent layers of oilpaint make the image become blurrier.
The work is a result of her experience and concentration during the long period it takes to work on a painting.
She approaches the place where she is not physically present at that moment from philosophical, geographical, historical and architectural viewpoints.
Her memories and thoughts about the location, the climate and the history of a place also play a part in the realization of the painting.
The paintings are finished when the intensity of the place in mind has vanished, when all possible thoughts have been discussed and processed on the canvas.
