🏆 Nomination: Best Of 2022

Nina Valkhoff

<div>Nina's contribution to the DRAWDA festival in Drogheda, Ireland was a special one, she was given the Irish mythological story of Étaín, to make her own visual representation of this complex story.<br><br>Étaín was a beautiful woman who got cursed and transformed into a scarlet fly. This is the glowing insect you see in the middle of my painting, a ‘scarlet fly’ with a little twist. In the very end of the story, over a thousand years have passed and Étaín has transformed many times, she flies away with her lover and they are seen as two swans. In my composition I tried to show protection and love, elements that are a part of this story.<br><br>DRAWDA is produced by Droichead Arts Centre, and LOVE Drogheda BIDS, with curators Dee Walsh and Brian Hegarty, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland under In the Open | Faoin Spéir Initiative, Louth County Council, Love Drogheda BIDS and Town &amp; Village Accelerated Measures funding. It is supported by The d Hotel, Murtagh’s of Drogheda and Colour Trend Paints.</div><div>Working together with local, national and international artists, and mythologist Anthony Murphy, to deliver six murals based on some of the key figures from Irish Mythology who are rooted in the Boyne Valley region, the project will be delivered across a number of strands which will draw on Drogheda’s significant rich heritage, mythology and architecture.&nbsp;</div>

Étaín

<div>&nbsp;Waterford Walls 2022&nbsp;<br>Ionad Pobail An Rinn - Community Centre Ring</div>

the trout of knowledge

<div>In 2021, Wallin' invites many artists to this area of Ghent for their 'Graffiti Goldmine'. &lt;br/&gt;<br>This is what Nina has to say about this mural: 'it represents the amazing feeling of hugging someone you love, human or animal. Especially in these challenging times this is a feeling most of us crave, and I hope to give a message of hope and love with this mural. We see a sleeping girl with her cat. Is she dreaming, or is what we are seeing a daydream of the cat, who sees tasty little fishes appear?'<br>&lt;br/&gt;<br>A project by Wallin' vzw with support from stad Gent.</div>

Goldmine 2021 - Jade and Moggy

Untitled

Naked cat 

Crows

<div>This mural is a local initiative, when the owner invited Nina again to paint her cat on her house. A strange job for Nina who painted 2 popular murals at a local school. The word 'strange' here in a positive sense, because the artist thinks it is a beautiful assignment.&nbsp;<br>The owner saw large murals appearing everywhere in Goes, but because her neighbourhood lacked some colors she took initiative of her own. Her own cat Schoebertje and one of her pigeons now adorn the wall there. "It's real, you know," she says about the big cat on the wall.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;The owner paid for the mural herself after she asked for some support of the local council.<br><br>"I usually work for municipalities or other organizations and I have more free rein," says muralist Nina Valkhoff, who almost always makes murals with animals. In that sense, this was an odd request. But it's cool. Connie wanted her own cat on the wall. Well, great!''&nbsp;<br><br><br></div>

Schoebertje

Reiger

<div>&nbsp;For a couple of weeks, Dutch artist Nina Valkhoff has been working on murals at our headquarters in Jönköping. Now the paintings are ready and this week a small opening was held.</div><div>- It has been a lot of fun, and a different project for me, Nina says in her opening speech. I got to travel around to get inspiration for painting in the area, and got stuck for the otter. Partly it was suitable to do on the wall, it is a swimmer so it can get almost any shape. In addition, it is a protected species, and the combination with the lupine which is the opposite, which takes over where it grows felt good.&nbsp;</div>

The otter

Koolmees

<div>This work was realized for the Biennale street art "Superwalls" (June 2021).</div>

Leopard clouded

Specht

Kraai

Waterford Walls 2019

<div>&nbsp;</div><div>P E G A S U S <span data-trix-cursor-target="left" data-trix-serialize="false">﻿</span><figure contenteditable="false" data-trix-attachment="{&quot;contentType&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:16,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/te6/1.5/16/1f984.png&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:16}" data-trix-content-type="image" data-trix-id="174" class="attachment attachment--preview"><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/te6/1.5/16/1f984.png" data-trix-mutable="true" width="16" height="16" data-trix-store-key="imageElement/174/https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/te6/1.5/16/1f984.png/16/16"><figcaption class="attachment__caption" data-trix-placeholder="Add a caption…"></figcaption></figure><span data-trix-cursor-target="right" data-trix-serialize="false">﻿</span></div><div>My first 12-story high mural is a fact! I painted this pegasus for the people of Ede, the Netherlands, as a memorial for the 2000 British paratroopers that landed in this area in September 1944. They came to aid the Dutch army in the second world war. As I always paint animals, I tried to find a way to translate this historical moment into a fitting design. When I learned that the soldiers had been wearing a little emblem of a Pegasus on their arm, I knew what to do. For me it symbolizes hope, something that the people on the ground must have felt when they saw the soldiers coming down from the skies.&nbsp;</div><div>Thank you to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/astrantede/?__cft__[0]=AZVVIX30TW5kpALetW8I18UiDernmj7FtbueBv9uzkpetWsNJ69KGHJ06wgk0eWMXeBbkwAiF5fY5MV1iWOZiqUYG_55TfRTLX6VeAF8mc7g7lgEXJWb070NdeSRbFuLT-ukIDasukBreeRCKpNuwa9f&amp;__tn__=kK-R">Astrant Ede</a>&nbsp; for selecting me for this job, to Xander for helping me out, and for hosting me together with the lovely Rinske . You guys rock!&nbsp;</div><div>The Montana Black spraycans were sponsored by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rollingvinylstore/?__cft__[0]=AZVVIX30TW5kpALetW8I18UiDernmj7FtbueBv9uzkpetWsNJ69KGHJ06wgk0eWMXeBbkwAiF5fY5MV1iWOZiqUYG_55TfRTLX6VeAF8mc7g7lgEXJWb070NdeSRbFuLT-ukIDasukBreeRCKpNuwa9f&amp;__tn__=kK-R">Rolling Vinyl</a>&nbsp; , thanks so much Nikolaas! <span data-trix-cursor-target="left" data-trix-serialize="false">﻿</span><figure contenteditable="false" data-trix-attachment="{&quot;contentType&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:16,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t91/1.5/16/1f918.png&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:16}" data-trix-content-type="image" data-trix-id="236" class="attachment attachment--preview"><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t91/1.5/16/1f918.png" data-trix-mutable="true" width="16" height="16" data-trix-store-key="imageElement/236/https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t91/1.5/16/1f918.png/16/16"><figcaption class="attachment__caption" data-trix-placeholder="Add a caption…"></figcaption></figure><span data-trix-cursor-target="right" data-trix-serialize="false">﻿</span></div><div>Thanks a lot to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SMOKstreetart?__cft__[0]=AZVVIX30TW5kpALetW8I18UiDernmj7FtbueBv9uzkpetWsNJ69KGHJ06wgk0eWMXeBbkwAiF5fY5MV1iWOZiqUYG_55TfRTLX6VeAF8mc7g7lgEXJWb070NdeSRbFuLT-ukIDasukBreeRCKpNuwa9f&amp;__tn__=-]K-R">SMOK</a>&nbsp; from Antwerp, Belgium, for assisting me and for all the good times! He helped me to feel comfortable at the highest parts of the wall, great guy! Go give him a follow if you like quality streetart <span data-trix-cursor-target="left" data-trix-serialize="false">﻿</span><figure contenteditable="false" data-trix-attachment="{&quot;contentType&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:16,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5b/1.5/16/1f60d.png&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:16}" data-trix-content-type="image" data-trix-id="260" class="attachment attachment--preview"><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5b/1.5/16/1f60d.png" data-trix-mutable="true" width="16" height="16" data-trix-store-key="imageElement/260/https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5b/1.5/16/1f60d.png/16/16"><figcaption class="attachment__caption" data-trix-placeholder="Add a caption…"></figcaption></figure><span data-trix-cursor-target="right" data-trix-serialize="false">﻿</span></div><div>This mural was made possible by Astrant Ede, de provincie Gelderland, Woonstede, Prins Schilderwerken, Boels, and of course Rolling Vinyl store.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>Location: Van Eekelenflat, Ede. Nieuwe Maanderbuurtweg 1270, on the left side of the building. 11 x 33 meters, 2022.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>Picture by @g_worldwide</div><div>.&nbsp;</div>

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