Mother and Child (1905) by Gustav Klimt
Madonna (1895) by Edvard Munch
Dead Mother I (1910) by Egon Schiele
Mother and Child (1913) by Emil Nolde
Painter Stef Driesen makes haunting images that fuse abstract, evocative shapes with brooding color. The paintings - both figurative and landscape - have a mysterious, erotically charged laziness that is reinforced by Driesen’s light application of paint. Whether painting the figure or the landscape, Driesen’s imagery is surreal and dreamlike; the organic forms seem to become bodies, landscapes and monuments, all at once.
