Martine Jacobs - Where Form Disappears

Martine Jacobs, born in Amsterdam in 1956, is a renowned pastel artist specializing in colorful pastel drawings. Her work is characterized by vibrant colors and a soft, dreamy quality.

This is a print colored with pastel pencils.
The work was designed and colored by Martine Jacobs.
By coloring the prints herself, Martine can add her own style, feeling, and emotion to the work. This makes each print unique and authentic.

"This work is a visual meditation. I wanted to capture a moment where the journey is more important than the destination. The colorful tiles symbolize the emotions and experiences we encounter along the way—sometimes warm, sometimes cool, sometimes chaotic, but always part of the path.
The figure walking toward the temple is small, almost lost in the grandeur of the landscape. This is deliberate: it's a reflection on how insignificant we can feel in the face of the unknown, the spiritual, the sublime. Yet he keeps walking. That's courage.
The vertical lines on either side are like memories or thoughts—sometimes clear, sometimes blurred. They guide, but also hinder. And the temple? It stands there not as an endpoint, but as an invitation to introspection. It is not a religious building, but an inner space.
The air, with its transition from warm to cool, is time itself. Perhaps it's morning, perhaps evening. Perhaps it's both. For in this world, time is fluid, as is meaning.
I call it 'Where Form Disappears' because silence is not the absence of sound, but the moment when everything comes together: color, form, feeling, and meaning.”_
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