My work moves between collage and painting, where words, pigments, and reclaimed materials weave into layered surfaces. Repetition, ritual, and attentive listening guide the process—lines of text return like prayers, sometimes hidden, sometimes revealed. In recent years I have turned to more silent languages—the subtle voices of materials, spaces, land and rhythms that do not speak in human-words. These pieces explore belonging, thresholds between image and language, and the creation of spaces for the unknown. Each work becomes a kind of home: built from fragments, carrying memory, and open to dialogue with the viewer and the place where it resides.
Paintings
1: 13 Moons, 13 Moods, 2022, Lokstallet Älmhult
2: Blue Moon, 90 x 120 cm, mixed media, Sold
3: Blue IV, 70 x 75 cm, mixed media Sold
4: Beginning, 35 x 105 cm, mixed media, sold
5: Red moon, 90 x 120 cm, mixed media, Sold
Land art
1: Little house of contemplation
2: Me reading in the book of the little house
3: Serving as the first official Island poet of my home island Texel 2016-2018
4: A path I made, re – activating the land
5: Schemeren/Kura Skymning – Waiting for twilight
Collages
1: Wittgenstein on pain, mixed materials, 40 x 40 cm
2: Hildegard von Bingen, prayer, mixed materials, 50 x 40 cm
3: Blue news, mixed materials, 40 x 50 cm
4: Earth angel, mixed materials, 60 x 80 cm
5: Raven call, mixed materials, 30 x 70 cm
6: Light cracks, mixed materials, 30 x 40 cm
Mare Hilstra Artist, Poet, Listener 