image: Janna Bathoorn

Dokkum, 1975
Graduated at School of Fine Arts Minerva, Groningen, 2000

Trained as a painter, I have always had a strong appreciation for craftsmanship, transformation, and the reuse of existing imagery.

My works are contemporary collages in which small, pixel-like fragments, cut from vintage print and painted sheets, are carefully combined into new painterly compositions.

I am fascinated by this process of deconstructing and rearranging.

Besides visual arts I am actively involved in a range of projects focusing on spatial design, material innovation and community.

Each work is physically constructed from fragments sourced from vintage art prints of works in the public domain, salvaged from waste streams and discarded books. These prints are cut into small tiles and recomposed one by one into layered visual compositions.

The process is labour-intensive. While the source material originates from printed imagery, the final work is fully physical, tactile and materially present.

From a distance, the image reads as a unified whole. Up close, individual fragments reveal texture, colour variation and traces of their origin.