The Artist
Sophie Ploeg
was born and raised in The Netherlands. She has always enjoyed
art and and studied Theatre Design at Art College in Utrecht.
With a thirst for more knowledge about art and architecture she
enrolled at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam to study art history.
She gained her MA in 1998 and is currently in the last stages
of writing a Ph.D on the role of rhetoric in English architecture
in the seventeenth century.
In 2001 she moved to England to live with her English fiancé.
Her interest in 'speaking pictures' has infected her paintings
as can be seen in her architectural work and her portraits. She
takes on commissions for portraits or buildings and enjoys the
balance between the requirements of clients and the freedom of
experimenting with the most persuasive combinations of colour,
composition and texture. Her love for pastel started in her teens
when she worked from a small beginner's box of Rembrandt pastels,
which has since then expanded to an ever-growing amount of professional
quality pastels. She loves to work with colour and tones as those
are, for her, some of the strongest elements of atmosphere and
expression.
She has had various commissions from clients in The Netherlands
and the United Kingdom. The demand for her work is growing and
she is currently looking for the ideal venue to exhibit her work
more regularly.
Pastels can create an impressive range of colours and tones. It
can have the softness of watercolour or the intense colours of
oil paintings. While it originated in Italy in the sixteenth century,
it became very popular in the eighteenth and late nineteenth century.
Famous impressionist pastel artists include Degas, Renoir, Toulouse
Lautrec and Whistler.
Sophie Ploeg
accepts commissions and much of her work is for sale. More examples
of her work can be seen on her own website at:
http://www.sophieploeg.com
She can be
contacted by Email at:
info@sophieploeg.com
