Witte Wartena

My work is narrative, based on myself and my surroundings, it features friends, family and scenes from my daily life.
I often work in series. Examples include a series of watercolours of gallery openings in Berlin and portraits of well-known writers and curators, collectors and gallery owners who live in the cities where I reside.
Or the watercolours depicting of places I visited or lived at the time.
The drawings are made as accurately as possible in the sense that they include every detail of our every day existence, such as clutter, rubbish and graffiti: features of our present environment.
I like to think of my work as snap shot photos, similar to the photo albums my mother has of me since I was born: a personal history book of my life. For me, creating work is a way of preserving my ever-changing reality. I see beauty in the ever-day world. With my work I want to make the viewer look at their surroundings with new eyes and see what I sees beauty in the mundane.