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Poen de Wijs (Dutch artist) 1948 – 2014
Portretstudie van de Beeldhouwster Margot Homan (Study for Portrait of the Sculptress Margot Homan), 1999
acrylics on canvas
50 x 100 cm.
signed Poen de Wijs
private collection

Poen de Wijs was born in the town of Nijmegen, in the east of The Netherlands. As an introvert boy he liked to withdraw with his recorder, studying baroque music for many hours a day. During secondary school he already started at the Conservatory of Tilburg. His childhood sweetheart Margriet, with whom he was to marry soon, started studying flute, while Poen discovered that he actually liked drawing more than the recorder. To his surprise (and of his parents) he was attended to the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. There he felt at home and found his destination. But music never left his life. Although drawing had becoming his passion, he still liked playing along with his wife or with other musicians. During his studies he lived among music students, and when in 1971 he bought a large, fourteen-room dilapidated house, the rooms were soon to be filled with musicians. All day long the house was a cacophony of sounds, while Poen was working in his attic studio (the place where he still works).

The first years of his career he worked very abstract, and from 1977 he started to paint more realistic. This is also the year that the musical group Flairck formed in his house, and soon gained a big succes in the Netherlands. One of Poen’s first realistic watercolours was chosen by the band for the vinyl cover, under protest of the record company. Many lp’s and covers were to follow.

In his earlier period Poen combined nudes with abstract elements. Later he combined images from art history with contemporary subjects. Since the 1990s he has interwoven the theme of cultural integration into almost all his works. Poen likes to paint the people of today, young and old, men and women of all races and cultures. He surrounds them with animals, with musical instruments, with still lifes, with decorative patterns, with structures, in a virtuoso game and with brilliant technique.

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Margot Homan, was born in Oss, The Netherlands, and educated at the Tilburg Academy of Art, where it was strictly forbidden to her to work in a figurative style. Nevertheless directly after graduating she followed her artistic vocation, and started to develop her own figurative style.
Margot Homan lives and works in Tilburg, The Netherlands, and in Pietrasanta, Italy.
Her sculptures and drawings are represented in many private and public collections in The Netherlands and abroad. Since 2011 she is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS).

Margot Homan about her work:
When in my mind an artistic idea ripens, it grows intuitively into a cristal-clear concept: "L’Immagine del Cuore” (The Image of the Heart) and by materializing this concept into my sculpture everything must breath the same clarity as a part of an harmonious whole. I seek for an expression that transcends the limits of anatomy stretching the physical reality into my artistic concept ,which is not linked to a specific individual (a model) but to “man” in an universal sense. In my sculpture I aspire to express the human struggle on one hand and the wisdom of acceptance and consolation on the other.

To see more work by her, have a look at www.margothoman.nl.