Eefje Van den Brande draws her inspiration from a wide range of modern artists. But she also takes in old masters such as Frida Kahlo, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and Modigliani. 
Painting and drawing to express thoughts and feelings. Eefje translates this into figures rendered partially or completely distorted. They sprout from people and animals in strange poses, mostly created by a stain on a canvas that grows through imagination into creatures that engage in a battle with themselves and the outside world. By getting in touch with their own dream world, emotions are given room to express themselves.
Each canvas is for Eefje a new confrontation, a new challenge. It is a back and forth between doubt and certainty. It is probing, wiping away, adding again. It is balancing color and layering, organic and static. The forms flow from connections that come about unconsciously. Each layer appeals to itself and to the artist.

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