Annemarie Petri - Magnificent mixed media (collage) "het Plein 2" - hand signed -1999

• Annemarie Petri (The Hague, 1965)

When designing her paintings, Annemarie Petri uses her own photos of landscapes, objects and anatomical preparations. She combines this with other images to create a design that is painted with acrylic paint on a panel. During the painting process, everything changes. The painting starts to 'live its own life' until form and content completely coincide. Sometimes almost nothing remains of the original design. This way of working makes it impossible to work according to routine. Every painting presents her with new problems. But it is precisely by not choosing the familiar path that there is so much life in this work. The collage technique is used for the images, which allows all kinds of dissimilar elements to be combined. For example: shells, fish, mechanical parts and children's toys are made into rubber moulds. Wax models are cast in these and welded together. The wax models are then cast in bronze in different parts, finished and then welded together and patinated. Making such an image is very time-consuming and requires a lot of craftsmanship. When designing the etchings, Annemarie Petri uses the collage technique, which creates complicated and often surprising compositions. The drawing is then drawn on one etching plate and bitten in stages. The etchings are multi-colour prints. By 'painting' a colour on the plate per printing run and then printing it 'wet on wet', an effect of depth is created. Her sources of inspiration are: 17th century engravings in the style of Piranesi, natural science, literature and, first and foremost, the romantic longing for a world that does not exist but that you can only dream of.
(source: ArtZaanstad)