Paintings

German Version

In the refined paintings of Silvia Willkens you will find the “imago” of human beings who seem to come frome a different frame of time. Faces, but also whole figures, often without any specific attribute and without a particular reference to space, are portrayed on plain, delicately colored panels. Willkens calls these paintings “Collective Portraits”.

The artist describes the emanation of her images as “a fusion of different persons from different times and cultures, as handed down to us through the arts.” Her search includes the observation of contemporary people as well. In this way she creates a sort of amalgam of human images, always slightly reminiscent – of somebody, of somewhere, or some feeling of being fresh, unspent and peaceful.

 Gallery Kwai Fung Hin, Hong Kong 2012