“I paint pictures to remember...” 
(PJ Harvey, stories from the city, stories from the sea)

Every memory is incomplete!
Nonetheless Daniella van Broekhoven tries to keep alive memories about places, promenades, travels and moments by painting. During these experiments with paint and other materials memories come back to life; the action in the workshop though is at that moment always more intense.
One can see that her paintings have grown slowly. To van Broekhoven painting is a strive to materialise perceptions and call them into existence by paint. The painted has got rid of the perception. She doesn’t paint to nature but from nature. In this way she underwrites the beauty she experiences. The horizon, a typical (Dutch) landscape, is something you don’t see often in her work, this gives an alienated effect, the paintings move in borderland, between figuration and abstraction.

With passion for the materials and curious about the possibilities and limits of these materials, she works on layered cloths and new images that go with those beloved memories. A good painting leaves space for interpretation, yet it needs personal recognition as well. It needs to touch you from a distance, but may not, when watched in detail, reduce in quality. “Actually as a spectator you have to ‘become eager’ to go painting yourself.”