LILY VAN DER STOKKER, Brigitte Bardot, 1994
Lily van der Stokker uses decorative motifs, bright colors, cute doodles, friendly words {'happiness', ' love', 'kisses'), arrows, and rudimentary floral designs to produce work that "seeks happiness and friendship" and deals with things that seem to be forbidden in art, especially the decorative, the sentimental, and the "nice". In doing so, she exaggerates the "sweetness" of these motifs. Nor does she avoid illness or old age as subjects.
Van der Stokker calls her style "non-shouting feminism". Her wall drawings are intuitive, emotional, and personal.
Often large-scale and site-specific, her works are fully encompassing and alter remarkably the architecture of the space they occupy as they billow out in all their candy-colored, psychedelic glory.