Bernadette Sterk

Bernadette Sterk’s art is a representation of her life, with its deep ocean of mysteries and transformativ stages. Her life is of beautiful phases that shift and change as it evolves.
All of her paintings in series are “Created to Create Myself”, to give her insight knowledge, courage and power. They represent her inner world of struggles and turmoil to ravel out the influence of the outer world, which she believed was true, but only covered up her true self. She can only hope that every woman and man find strength and the courage to recover and be empowered in knowing their true Grandeur by birthright. May her work be of help.
Dutch artist Bernadette Sterk is self-taught in painting and employs the Princeton catalyst as a tool, bringing spectacular development to her technical skills. Sterk has no intentions to portray the models, instead her interest is in creating images that express her deeper emotions.

Quotes/ Personal sentences that best represents the artist:
“I want to keep feeling and make the viewer feel something”
“I feel lost without the ability to create”
‘Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter’ Quote Oscar Wilde

Artistic approach like style, medium and specific techniques:
Bernadette Sterk uses Acrylic paint on Artel professional linen on aluminium frames. Her technique is specific by using the Princeton catalyst only as a tool, it gives the structures and the colors a special effect.
She likes to use the background colors as a part in the realisation of the portrait. Sterk’s style is only changing by improvements, arising during the proces of working. Important for her style is the connection between the images, the titles, the story behind it and the appearance of each piece of artwork. 

Galleries
The artworks of this artist are represented by several Dutch galleries and foreign online galleries

Contactdetails Bernadette:
https://www.bernadettesterk.nl
kunst@bernadettesterk.nl