Milou Honig
( Amsterdam, 1947) graduated in 1969 at the Gerrit Rietveld
Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
From that time on she is working as an artist. Nowadays her
paintings and her graphic art show that a strong
relationship between abstraction and reality exists. Often
her works are compositions of colourful abstract fields,
not very well defined, but still distinct from each other.
In those colourful fields you see figurative elements: a
ancient city-wall, a sand desert, dutch skies above the
polder-landscape, the hills and valleys of the french
Dordogne. And impressions of Africa, such as a mosque, the
valley of the river Draa, geometric forms from the African
decorative art.
Colour is for Milou Honig a very first. Her works have to
radiate, to vibrate. She paints sunny, happy-making
sceneries out of a conviction that nature is the source of
vitality and can not/ must not be contained.
photo: Sjaak Ramakers
Milou Honig uses different methods: she paints on paper
(gouache) and canvas (acrylic paint) and she makes her own
graphic art, mainly silk-screens, which she finds the best
medium for the contrasting polychromy of her work.
Milou lives and works in France, most time of the year.