painting and digital art, 30 x 50 cm
I live and work in the north of Holland and graduated as autonomous artist on the Minerva Academy of Fine Art at Groningen. Humans took millions of years to evoluate in feeling, reflecting, thinking beings. Now they have to live with a brain that has been determined by evolutionary history. Of course also learning does influence the development of the brain. Faces show signs of this evolutionary and personal history. This fascinates me. Moreover, in my work I want to draw attention to the particularity of human behaviour, the diversity of behaviour has its own beauty. Deviance from normality – being different- has fascinated me for a long time. As a biologist I did research on the behaviour of depressed patients and became my PhD in Medicine. By virtue of my profession I observed psychiatric patients. Now, this fascination is a source of inspiration for my fine art. www.nettybouhuys.nl