Gerda Elfring - Kippen en een haan - Sold

Silkscreen approx. 61x60, numbered 79/175 in pencil lower left and signed Ge Elfring lower right, nicely framed behind passe-partout and in aluminum frame, but WITHOUT glass plate.
Landscapes and Animals are the main starting points of the paintings by Gerda Elfring (Haaften, 1956). With firm brushstrokes, strong brushwork and expressive colors she puts her subjects firmly on the canvas. Among other things, she translates the river country where she was born in lyrical-abstract works. What fascinates her comes in large areas of color and hardly detailed parts on her canvases, in which the emotion of the experience is more important than the exact representation of the subject. Gerda Elfring mainly paints colors and shapes; in powerful compositions and with personal colors she reflects her experience of reality. For Gerda, reality is the reason for very personal paintings. At the end of her education at the New Academy of Visual Arts in Utrecht, Gerda mainly focused on painting tulips, followed by the first landscapes for which the painters of abstract expressionism laid the foundation. "The grand gesture, the own choice of color and the powerful handling of the brush characterize not only this movement, but also the work of Gerda Elfring."