Elvira van Bochove

ELVIRA VAN BOCHOVE  Transmitting through art

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Pebble tapestry

Pebble tapestry
– installation at Pop-up Wantij open air exhibition, Wantij swimmingpool

I feel such gratitude towards this willowtree. She provided a loving space for my Pebble tapestry during Pop-up Wantij. 
Several humans entered this space and were able to experience an unexplored connection with water…

The Pebble Tapestry is a gossamer painting of an outward rippling motion. You as the observer are the pebble.
Looking at this image will aid your inner eye. It activates the mind-consiousness of “oneness with nature”. In addition, physical contact with water (hands, feet, body) helps the process. It is a portal into a realm that makes you more aware of all other beings. 

As a being of water, you are connected with all water. All you have to do is send your message, the water will carry. You are rippling your reality.

Interacting with the work in this way will transform patterns on many levels. The collective experience of being connected with everything amplifies. Our behaviour towards our environment and our own bodies will change. The feeling of being separate can fade out into being part of it all.

A transformational movement starts with the insight that we are able to change things. We can actively make a difference. You are the start. You are a pebble.

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Waterfliers

Waterflyers  – 20 x 50 cm, acrylic on canvas

Water flows through us all, and we flow through water. It connects and transports. We can fly like angels the moment we perceive all this stardust, and be one in water.

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We are mostly water

This human is the container and the water that feeds the earth. The water that she drank is floating in her eyes.  Tiny fishes enter through the straw and can be seen swimming there. The fishes are part of her body, that is their habitat. 

“We are mostly water”
Acylic on canvas – 100 x 100 cm

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My bubbletea drinking daughter, who has these huge eyes was my model for the painting. At the time she kind of wanted to be a froggirl (she watches anime a lot). It is quiet easy to recognise her as a watercreature…

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She would rather turn to foam than kill him


The sea that once was her home is about to swallow the Little Mermaid, who is turning into foam. This is the consequence of the Prince loving someone else more then her. She could have saved herself by stabbing a dagger in his heart on the night of his marriage. But she loved him more than her own life and threw herself into the sea. Knowing that she would ultimately dissolve into it…
“She would rather turn to foam than kill him” is after “Ophelia” by John Everett Millais.

She would rather turn to foam than kill him     2020

acrylics on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

The Little Mermaid and her choices...

The classic fairytale by Hans Christiaan Andersen is the guiding principle for a series of paintings I am working on. The tragedy of her being a creature without much power to choose the life that she desires gives her little self-love. Using works from art history, I hilight emancipatory issues that are in the story.

She traded her voice for a pair of legs   2019

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She traded her voice for a pair of legs

The Little Mermaid and her choices...

The classic fairytale by Hans Christiaan Andersen is the guiding principle for a series of paintings I am working on. The tragedy of her being a creature without much power to choose the life that she desires gives her little self-love. Using works from art history, I hilight emancipatory issues that are in the story.

She traded her voice for a pair of legs     2019 

acrylics on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

The painting shows the Little Mermaid after her visit to the Sea Witch. She is left in a lonely environment. The light emphasizes her new legs, where there used to be a fish tail. The road to a possible life with the Prince. For this she paid with her voice, an essential part of the being of a mermaid. She will never again be able to tell her Prince and the world who she is …
“She traded her voice for a pair of legs” is after Rembrandt’s “The Bather”.

She would rather turn to foam than kill him   2020  

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Rotte stream

Letting the water flow. At first en plein air. It had been while, painting with cold fingers, sunshine and wind on my face!  The finishing part was done in my studio, to layer the rippling water, creating movement. At river the Rotte.

Rotte stream    2021  
acrylics on canvas, 100 x 100 cm    2000,-

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The blue sky

Here is the world as we want to see it, pleasant and beautiful. Everything is good, the air is clear, the water is fresh and there is yellow-golden sunlight. But, below the surface is that which we would rather not see. The being in the water is asphyxiated.

Swimming and hunting, like sharks with a human body, we come across our own poison.

 

Acrylics are used as matt as possible, without medium, with gesso, zinc- and titaniumwhite. The yellow is partly oilpaint. This makes the sunlight the most intense colour in the painting.

The blue sky 
acrylics & oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm
€ 4000,-