Nadia van Luijk
About the artist
Professional artist Nadia van Luijk has been painting beyond the boundaries of the canvas for over 25 years. She continuously searches for possibilities of painting in various ways. She paints on canvas, walls, T-shirts, gives live paint performances and workshops. Her art is a search for the deeper layers of existence. She calls her work ‘artistic mind fucks’, intended to amaze you and make you aware in a playful way that we live on a beautiful planet floating around in an infinite universe, where everything is ‘real’, but we can’t fully understand. When she was younger, she experienced the magic of art when she saw Magritte’s painting ‘The Empire of Light’. She was blown away by the opportunity to paint the impossible. This has always been an essential driving force in her work, the game between illusion and reality. By painting she tries to understand the essence of reality and increase her comprehension. She gets her inspiration from nature, hip hop, ancient cultures, paradoxes and…FOOD! Her style is colorful, dynamic, visually strong, refined, has surreal elements with a powerful message. She has created many murals, paintings, illustrations and has extensive experience in commissioned works. She enjoys every project and she strives for unexpected powerful results every time.