Yesteryears - Sophie Walraven

Live Painting in Nightclubs

Realy? What? Well winter of 2007/2008, I didn’t pack my paint and flipflops to go somewhere exotic, I took my gear to the nightclubs of Amsterdam. Pretty hot and exotic too. I painted live on stage, even in the famous Paradiso. Next to the DJ, on stage, dancing (can’t help myself) and panting. With a…

Head to Toe

Portraits, head to toe. I have them nicely framed in perspex (77 x 150 cm), they cost €550 each. Come to my studio to see them in real life!

Paramaribo 2007

I was an artist in residence, and workes as a teacher at the Nola Hatterman Institute in Paramaribo, Surinam. As many other years, I fled the Dutch winters in 2007. I went to Paramaribo for two months, to work for myself and teach to provide for my stay. I shared a giant studio with hundreds…

Horses in Amsterdam

The summer of 2006, after New Delhi, I went completely wild on the subject ‘Horses’. I had them lying around all over my studio. Large colorful running energetic superass horses. But they belonged in the city. So there. In two weeks time I pasted up to a hundred horses all over my city. I turned…

Horses from New Delhi 2006

Come to my studio to see them all, I made many horse studies and have become my classics. The Delhi Horses each measure 44 x 57 cm and cost €450

Drawings from New Delhi, India 2006

In Delhi I had an enormous studio and because it was in a screenprinting factory, I also had unlimited oily screenprinting ink. The best stuff I have ever worked with. Probably forbidden to work with in Europe because of the poisonous fumes, but it was the best. I started drawing the things I saw around…