Edith Snoek

Edith Snoek was born in Gorinchem, Holland in 1958 and now lives and works in Alphen aan den Rijn. Between 1978 - 1983, she completed her teacher training in Visual Arts, going on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2003.

Edith is interested in depicting women and girls in her paintings; she also explores the themes of tenderness and vulnerability in her work. The figures in her paintings can be intimate and at the same time alienating, Edith’s artistic process involves layering textures and tones to lend an ethereal quality to her paintings. Her recent ‘Girl Series’ was inspired by Willem Wilmink’s poem, ‘Playing Girls’ which draws upon themes of memory and childhood.

Another reoccurring element in Edith’s work is the placement of associative objects that appear based on her precious memories. She is fascinated by contrasting themes in her images and often likes to include combinations using two or more picture fragments in her compositions.

Playing Girls

by Willem Wilmink

Full of gloomy doom thoughts

I got into a street

where girls' were playing

and we got to talking.

Turkish and Surinamese

and some autochthonous

and they hardly know,

they were just there.

My gloomy visions

of a world that perished,

faded in the light of those children

a memory.

For those girls with nice eyes

and with their beautiful hair

The children will bear

For the next thousand years.