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Nelleke van Lomwel

@nelvanlomwel

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Painter, Researcher and Art Director
Amsterdam based
Selected works @wondering.people

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New conversation online 🌞
Through painting, Nelleke builds a personal visual language shaped by ideas of sacredness, transformation and the body. Her work moves between the intimate and the archetypal.
In this conversation, she speaks about colour as memory, painting as ritual, and the way art became a form of movement during a period of severe illness and physical limitation.
“At its core, this practice is about showing up and moving through discomfort.”
→ read the full story on our website by @nelvanlomwel

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Working on a small collection on paper! It’s been slowly expanding my visual language 🏺🐑

‘Two Purple Lambs Running’
75 x 58 cm
Indian ink, vellum and mineral paint on paper by @nelvanlomwel

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2 months ago

‘And So She Carries’
60 x 80 cm

New studio!! @floorwandel and I moved into this spacious 17th century attic in the heart of Amsterdam. How lucky are we! Boxes still need to be unpacked, but the first painting is already born. Sooo ready to get going again🌪️

Music by @andrismattson by @nelvanlomwel

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INTRODUCING NELLEKE VAN LOMWEL

Nelleke van Lomwel is a self-taught painter, based in Amsterdam. She creates paintings that inhabit the space between belief and uncertainty. Through recurring figures, animals, and archetypal forms, she develops a personal symbolic language that explores questions of sacredness and ritual.

Her work is driven by an interest in how humans construct meaning in response to an often absurd and unpredictable world, and how symbols function as carriers of both collective and personal knowledge.
Central to her practice is the notion of existential mobility. Living with a physical disability, and having experienced periods in which illness severely restricted her movement, painting became a way to travel beyond the constraints of the body. This tension between physical limitation and imaginative expansion continues to inform her work.

Through colour, symbolism, and repetition,Van Lomwel approaches painting as both a process of meaning-making and a ritualized inquiry into what sustains us, connects us, and helps us find orientation in an uncertain world.

See Nelleke van Lommel’s available paintings at wonderingpeople.com by @nelvanlomwel

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4 months ago

Process over perfection🌀

Music by @andrismattson by @nelvanlomwel

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4 months ago

‘A Fountain’s Lullaby’ [sold]
Reflections on youth and decay ⛲️

100 x 61 cm, mineral paint on panel

With @wildgeesepod in the background, keeping me company as always👂 by @nelvanlomwel

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5 months ago

“Lightkeeper”

23 x 34,5 cm
Mineral paint on wood

Happy to be back in the studio this month. With @floorwandel capturing the proces on film, as always 🪷🪷🪷 by @nelvanlomwel

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‘Moondog’
45 x 42 cm

In folklore all around the world, witnessing a moondog is believed to be a guidance for lost travellers through icy lands. A glowing companion, lighting up the dark roads ahead. This work reflects a beacon of protection and a promise that even in darkness, we are never alone 🌕🌬️ by @nelvanlomwel

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6 months ago

Something new on the horizon 🌅

‘Freedom Tableau’
70 x 70 cm by @nelvanlomwel

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7 months ago

Another day, another @npocultuur bumper ✂️🎭

Er werd weer een weekend geknipt, geplakt en gedraaid. De volgende aflevering is vanaf 10 april te zien op NPO 2. Terugkijken kan ook, op NPO Start! by @nelvanlomwel

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Jongens handen uit die mouwen, het is tijd om wat te maken ✂️

Volgende maand weer te zien in de aflevering van @npocultuur. Met grote dank aan de one and only @floorwandel 💛 by @nelvanlomwel

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8 months ago

‘Momentum’ [sold]

50 x 25 cm by @nelvanlomwel

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