Mia Westerhof

I obtained my bachelor degree arts and crafts in 1980. For many years I taught children in secondary schools. In the meantime I studied at the Minerva Academy of Arts in Groningen, which I finished cum laude in the subjects drawing and painting in 1993. As an independent artist I create my own work and I also work to commission. The highlight in my career so far has been to receive permission from the foreman to paint for several years on prominent locations during the construction of Amsterdam’s new underground, known as the North-South line. As part of this project, I painted the ”Ferdinand Bolstraat”, which was subsequently acquired by the Amsterdam Museum in 2008. What we see around us is a perpetually changing an dynamic world of bricks and soil, surrounded by urban sounds. With the artist we notice the scaffoldings and the moving cranes, but be careful where you put your safety boots in the heavy clumps of mud! At this moment (from January 2021) I am inspired by anarcheolic project in Southwest Friesland where the found the remains of a castle from the 15th century. Thanks to RAAP (Drachten) and to Auke Bult (Molkwerum) I prefer to work in the following materials and technics: canvas (divers formats), oil-paint, acrylic paint, wood, chalk, oil pastel, ink, charcoal, paper.