Arjo Passchier about her works of art.

Drawings:

Wim Kranendonk (art historian, Gallery of Drawing) about the drawings of 

Arjo Passchier:

Since 2017, she has started a series of drawings under the title: 

"On the Nature of Light".
A continuous series about light in the observable and the non-visible world.
Mysterious images consisting of abstract forms, executed in Siberian chalk, charcoal, graphite and soft pastel.
They are works in the shape of a rectangle, square or diamond, which, due to their geometric simplicity, initially seem to promise calmness and concentration.
Fine, scratched lines, filled with charcoal, make the paper surface appear like a skin over which a transparent net of rhythmically linked motifs has been applied. A soft, muffled brightness is shown and opposite halves blend into each other like day and night, come closer in light or sink into darkness. The contrasts keep the gaze moving and observing becomes a dance, a staggering sensation of light and dark, of graphite that reflects light and a black in which light disappears.'