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Do you want to buy a sculpture, have a portrait made or do you need a sculpture but you are not sure what exactly? Do you need a custom-made project? I would love to hear from you and will react asap, this is in most cases the next day.

Calling is fast (please think of the time zone, I am in Amsterdam, CET); +31 (0)642350194

Have a lovely day! Saskia

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Wil je een beeld kopen, een portret laten maken of heb je een beeld nodig maar weet je niet precies wat? Wil je een op maat gemaakt project? Ik hoor het graag en reageer zo snel mogelijk, dat is meestal morgen al.

Bellen gaat snel; +31(0)6423 501 94

Fijne dag gewenst! Saskia

Dorpsweg Ransdorp
Amsterdam, NH, 1028
Netherlands

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Portrait of Mark Rutte

saskia de rooy

Who is this man that is our Prime Minister? I wondered about this in 2015. With this question in mind I made his portrait, I had no idea. For me, making a portrait is an intimate process. I try to capture someones soul by observing, looking for the being that moves the muscles.

After the clay part of the piece was finished, it was time for the next step. First I tried to make a peanut-butter glaze but as an artist luck is on your side in sometimes, and I did not succeed. Then I put a shining glaze on to be able to make the head mirroring with a silver luster.

Silver luster is a brown substance when you brush it on. The moment I did I could see something special was happening. At that moment the Black Pete / Zwarte Pieten/ Black-face discussion was working its way through the Netherlands, as it still is now, getting to the resolution slowly. When you cover a face in another color, you hide it, your identity opens up somehow.

Now, this portrait is a mirror. And this is right, after all these years, I still don’t have a clue who this person Mark Rutte is, what moves him, what makes him sing.

Mark Rutte

Good art is everywhere

saskia de rooy

I’m browsing through a catalogue of Documenta 1992. Loads of art, it was great to be there. And I am part of this, even if a lot of people don’t see the value of my work, I’m making the art-world as well. I am looking for one of the tiniest and most touching pieces of art etched in my memory, an egg in a glass of water with a sailing boat floating over it. Small. Vulnerable. You might think it insignificant. It tells about dreams. I do not hear all these things while I watch this sculpture but I feel moved and beauty and vulnerability. It is a sculpture to be overlooked easily. Like many things in life, small things are easily missed. The world of the moment (perhaps this is the same in every era) roars down on us over all things important it seems.

For me art is bringing us back to the things that are usually hidden in our heart. So we might feel once more what is really important.

‘You always have to start anew’, 1991, Belu-simion Fainaru

‘You always have to start anew’, 1991, Belu-simion Fainaru