Although most of her works are done in a very colourful palette, with vibrant hues like reds and oranges and yellows, blues and greens the dominant ones; there are also a few works that are darker and perhaps as a result of that, I found them less accessible. But interesting nonetheless!
For instance, there's a very dark painting called 'By night': it shows a cowering naked woman and a somewhat menacing, fully clothed male figure whose face, despite us seeing him from the front, remains in shadow. A poem by Marsman scrolled across the canvas in white lettering completes the painting.
The other dark picture that I thought stood out from the rest was that of a woman sitting underneath a lantern on a street bench, and the cityscape reared up dark and black behind her. The woman was fully visible, even if the lantern wasn't shedding any light on her; and the lack of an obvious light source lent the scene a surrealist quality, somewhat reminiscent (somewhat, mind you!) of Willink.
But the picture that spoke to me most directly, I think, was the one called 'Into the light': a woman captured in
As vibrant and brilliant as her works are,