About Lisette
Energy you feel
Lisette captures emotion in colour and brings energy to life in thread, line and plane. Using needle and thread, she builds textile paintings that are graphic and powerful from a distance, but up close reveal a soft, tactile layering.
By combining different techniques and making conscious choices in colour, material and composition, a play of contrast and rhythm is created. Energy and explosiveness are always balanced with calm and clarity. Each work has a pronounced presence but is never overpowering. .
Her portraits are all about the gaze: a snapshot full of character.
Her abstract works speak in rhythm, tension and movement.
She works in series, always from a theme. Not to repeat, but to explore and deepen.
Each series is a visual quest, with each work finding its place within a larger whole.
Her art is made to feel. To touch, and to be touched. To not only enrich spaces, but also soften them.
Visually and acoustically.
Because true beauty arises where colour, emotion and energy come together.
What you see is what I feel
Lisette works from a head that never stands still. Her ADHD brain feels everything, sees everything, thinks everything at once. Whereas in daily life this can sometimes overwhelm her, in her work she finds a foothold.
Textiles provide that structure. It forces you to make choices. To capturing emotion in form, colour and line. What was too much at first is given direction. Not to fix it, but to give it a place.
Yarn is her medium because it reflects her. Always in motion, never in complete control; like an extension of her own energy. It forces her to make choices. To let go and control.
Her material is idiosyncratic. She directs it but it also directs her. Like life itself.
Her years of work in healthcare and education taught her to really look.
Not to what people say, but to what they exude. To micro-expressions, to silence, to how someone comes in.
That attention and sensitivity form the basis of everything she makes.
In her work, Lisette consciously chooses portraits and abstract compositions.
Portraits to capture what often remains unspoken.
Abstract work to give colour and rhythm all the space they need. To build energy, tension, stillness.
Always from feeling. Always with attention.
What you see is what she feels. Is who she is.
And what you see in it is up to you.
To see & feel
Works by Lisette have been admired and touched in various places. Her interpretation of The Girl with the Pearl Earring was shown at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. She reached the final of the TV programme The New Vermeer and presented her work on stage during the VT Wonen Dutch Design Battle.
From now on, her work can be seen and purchased at gallery Unit4Art in Gouda. Her work Reflections is on display at restaurant Old Skool in Druten. A culinary destination, listed in the Michelin Guide, where its art and excellent gastronomy come together.
Unit4Art art gallery - Gouda
Restaurant Old Skool - Druten
The Mauritshuis museum - The Hague
TV 'The New Vermeer'
VT Wonen Dutch Design Battle
Exhibition art gallery K26 - Oss
Looking for the balance
From a distance, Lisette's work looks graphic, powerful and outspoken. But those who come closer discover a world of softness.
Textures that invite to touch. Colours that excite without screaming. Energy that is palpable but never overwhelming.
In her work, Lisette constantly seeks balance. Between chaos and clarity. Between energy and calm. Between feeling and controlling.
Where life is sometimes elusive, her work brings order. Structure. Space.
It is precisely in these contrasts that her strength lies.
In the tension between control and letting go. In daring to yield to dynamics, and consciously choosing simplicity.
What moves, she captures. What is too much, she brings back to its essence.
Lisette consciously works in series.
Because themes need time. Because deepening only happens when you dare to stay.
Within a series, connections emerge. Each work stands alone, but contributes to the larger story.
Each piece is a quest. A process of feeling, choosing, adapting.
She explores new techniques, new forms - but always returns to what drives her:
energy and emotion, captured in colour, thread and form.
Because what you see at first glance is never everything.
The true power is deeper. Like herself.
"Whether I want you to like it? No, I want you to feel it.
That it touches. That you want to touch it."