The work of Tosja van Lieshout unfolds between memory, landscape, and emotion. Through an intuitive and layered painting practice, she explores the transience of moments and the constant transformation found in both nature and personal life. Her paintings function as visual diary fragments: melancholic landscapes and quiet scenes in which memory, colour, and atmosphere merge together.
Van Lieshout works with oil paint, gouache, and ink on both prepared linen and raw cotton. The physical qualities of the canvas play an essential role in her process; the absorbent surface slows and influences her gestures, creating a tension between control and spontaneity. Her use of colour — rich, intense, and atmospheric — is central to her visual language.
Inspired by residencies and prolonged observations of her surroundings, Van Lieshout translates personal experiences and changing landscapes into paintings that feel both intimate and timeless. Her work brings together classical painterly themes with a contemporary sensitivity, where emotion and materiality remain deeply intertwined.
Tosja van Lieshout graduated from the Frank Mohr Institute and previously received the AKV St. Joost | Van Gogh AiR Award. Her practice is defined by an ongoing search for concentration, memory, and the poetic power of colour.
Van Lieshout works with oil paint, gouache, and ink on both prepared linen and raw cotton. The physical qualities of the canvas play an essential role in her process; the absorbent surface slows and influences her gestures, creating a tension between control and spontaneity. Her use of colour — rich, intense, and atmospheric — is central to her visual language.
Inspired by residencies and prolonged observations of her surroundings, Van Lieshout translates personal experiences and changing landscapes into paintings that feel both intimate and timeless. Her work brings together classical painterly themes with a contemporary sensitivity, where emotion and materiality remain deeply intertwined.
Tosja van Lieshout graduated from the Frank Mohr Institute and previously received the AKV St. Joost | Van Gogh AiR Award. Her practice is defined by an ongoing search for concentration, memory, and the poetic power of colour.
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