Life is not easy for artists in the Netherlands.
The economy is recovering but the people are still hesitant to spend money freely on things like buying art.
The Government is cutting back drastically on its spending, and this for years to come to balance the budget, and of course subsidies for artists are the first to go.
So the artists that survive in those barren circumstances are the ones who somehow find a solution to make a living.
Like many artists in the USA, nowadays we see more and more creative people in Europe that have become part-time artists.
They paint or make sculptures or make fine art photographs but have an ordinary job on the side to make money.
Like the painter Emmy Rooden.
She works as a secretary for the public administration of her town two days a week.
And the rest of the time she makes her art work in her atelier.
Although Emmy Rooden lives in a town far from the sea, her theme and subject is exactly that.
Anything that is related to the sea.
As if she has a desire for the sea and because it is too far away to put her feet into it, she compensates this by painting the sea and the fish and the light houses.
Her paintings have a certain clarity.
An optimism.
A happiness.
Exactly as she looks herself.
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To see more of the work of Emmy Rooden, go to:
http://www.emmyrooden.com
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1 comment:
yes, writers and artists all over the world cannot live well off their art alone unless they make serious compromises and then that ceases to be art. intelligent, creative and far-sighted patrons are needed plus a lot of promotion and a lot of other not-so-clean stuff. not may creative people are fortunate to get the right patrons who really understand what they do. so, along with the pursuit of art, they have to do a number of other jobs to survive. what keeps them going is just the passion for what they do and believe in. in many ways, it can be a huge struggle.
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