Mijn werken die naar de expo gaan.

Wer schläft in einem Bett Silber hat Goldene Träume.

Who sleeps in a bed of silver has golden dreams.

The subject of my Paintings come from the annotations that I write during the last 10 years of my sleeping-dreaming. When I had a dream I wake up and write it in a small notebook.

After 10 years I realize that it is a good subject for painting. Sometimes I paint the whole story of the dream in a painting and sometimes a part of several dreams in one painting. Or a composition of several objects or things that happened in the dreams.

When I start working on one of those paintings, I try to create a good image on the canvas. But it’s difficult to give the dream I dreamt in a good way on the canvas. The reality is hard and the dream is often soft and miraculous. Especially when I must choose the colors in relation with the subjects. I begin with one of the subjects in my dreams, and make a sketch on canvas and look for colors to paint. However I dream in colors, it is difficult to those the right colors. When I paint I think about the next image and where it’s came on the canvas. And so I am working in the whole painting. Mostly I work on one or even with two or three paintings at the same time. I look always for a good composition at my work. My technique for this paintings is with oil.

Ones Friedrich Nietzsche said:

In our dreams we consume too much our creativity mind- and for this reason we are missing the most of our creativity by day.

mijn expo in offenbach / frankfurt

'Dream paintings'

The dream as a subject of painting, representing a dream in an image is not that simple. Getting into the world of dreams is not tangible and from a certain point of view surreal. When reading out a recorded dream as a story, all kind of images and representations will cross your mind.

Petra has been writing down her dreams for more then ten years now. The multiplicity of images she found in these 'books of dreams' inspired her to transpose these images on canvas.

It was difficult for her to make a choice out of hundreds of these stories and transforming the imaginary and surreal into concrete, figurative images. Her aim was to surprise the observer and drag him into her world of divergent subject and colour compositions but above all a structure of alienation and estrangement; the 'dream painting'. Quit a different experience.

A beautiful example of her work is the canvas depicting an Open Window and Swimming Pigs It is composed out of distinct elements and multiple dreams. The crows, pigs and the diving girl have no significance or importance in relation to each other Several elements are recomposed into a new fantastic story in her mind. In that process there must have been an urgent desire for empty space, wideness. Consequently I feel she uses the water as a metaphor for unlimited space and the flying birds for personal freedom. The window, yet in slightly dark colours, is wide open. The diving girl represents, in my opinion, purity and sound chastity.

With its cyclic composition, in which none of the elements attracts the viewer's full attention, the painting invites to ongoing and variable elucidations and interpretations. Theoretically the variety of subjects can be narrowed down to a theme. However, the comparison of the paintings will not be easy nor has it been a goal.

It's not a requirement to understand the 'Dream painting' as a dream itself nor is it an explanation for a certain series of thoughts and visions which occur during dreaming. Petra hopes to create an atmosphere in her work in which the spectator will lose himself in his own dream.

Robert Verhaaf, Anton Gregoire, February 2012

eten bij Trudy en Roel is altijd een feest in de zomer dit keer

gedicht van Aad Eerland

Paradijs                                                                                               

De erezetels zuchten nog na, na

het opveren van figuren die zich,

door een opgepotte levensstijl gedreven,

los van elkaar hebben ontwikkeld.

Van dubbeltongen rollen duistere

berichten allerwegen. In marmeren harten

heerst angst voor de vreemde tongval, en

gelddorst wordt met kunsthaat gelest.

Dan blaast helse storm ijzige kou van de hoogste

duinen over de doodlopende straten van

hun paradijs. De stootstenen ommuring

kraakt – zuchtend zitten ze op hun ezelzetels.

Kortademig kruipen ze uit het puin, oog

in oog met de niet weggeweken wachters

van de verbeeldingskracht. Het laagland

straalt – duisternis is overmeesterd.

Vertellers weerklinken met weerklank.

© Aad Eerland

Dream schilderijen

“ Dream schilderijen “, Petra Wiek

Sinds 1997 schrijf ik mijn dromen op, en tot begin 2011 heb ik daar niets mee gedaan. Wel had ik ooit het idee er wat mee te gaan doen. Het is moeilijk in een schilderij je dromen te laten zien, of het een droom te laten zijn. De kunstenaar Odilon Redon ( 1840 – 1916 ) wist een droom op het doek te verbeelden.Ik ga uit van de beelden die ik in mijn droom heb gezien om daar een compositie van te maken. Het beeld op het schilderij is één droom, of verschillende delen uit één droom.Uiteindelijk ga ik uit van realistische beelden in het schilderij. Deze vormen of figuren heb ik dan ook werkelijk in mijn dromen gezien. Zoals Nietzsche schrijft heb ook ik de dramaturgie nodig om het beeld kracht bij te zetten.Want dat wat in een droom zo angstig of mooi kan zijn wil ik overbrengen op het doek.

`Dream paintings’,  Petra Wiek  

Since 1997 have I written down my dreams, and up to beginning 2011, I have done nothing with it. However, I ever had the idea to do something with it. It is difficult in a painting how to show your dreams, or let it be a dream. The artist Odilon Redon ( 1840 – 1916 ) could put a dream on the painting. I take the pictures which I had seen in my dream, and make a  composition. The pictures on the painting are from one dream, or several parts from different  dreams. Eventually I assume realistic pictures in the painting. These forms or figures I have seen thus real in my dreams. Such as Nietzsche wrote, also  I need the dramaturgy to the strength of the picture. Because that what I want to transmit in the painting is the dream that can be anxious or beautiful.