Let’s talk a bit about the artists.
Petra-Puk (known by all simply as Puk) is a female installation & visual artist and founder of (p)Art Productions. Born in The Hague – the Netherlands (1972). From an early age she is into drawing, painting, photography (old, analogue techniques) and philosophy.
During her childhood she moved almost every two years. These frequent changes, clearly formed her. She’s outgoing and openly curious about anything, everything and everyone. During her early twenties she started to travel and live abroad for about ten years.
Being adventurous she pushed the boundaries during scuba diving. This ultimately let to a forced change of carrier and let her back to an old love; the arts. As a multiple (rather than late) bloomer she started to study in thirties (Fotovakschool Amsterdam) and forties (Royal academy of fine arts, Antwerp)
Installation & visual artist – (p)Art Productions
Although Petra-Puk works with photographic processes, she is not a photographer in any traditional sense. Often photographs are used as the base, whereupon the total piece is constructed. A photograph doesn’t need to be flat. Differences in height make the work appear as a sort of sculpture, a photographic one. Science, philosophy, cubism, conceptual- and experimental art, are clearly a great influence on her art.
(p)Art Productions represents the combination of different media combining one piece of art. Different parts = one piece of art.
Additional info
Studied at the Fotovakschool Amsterdam
Studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp, Belgium.
Dutch, based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Studio EAM
Ester Rademaker is a female visual artist and founder of Studio Eam and Rademaakt. Born in Zwartewaal (near Rotterdam) – the Netherlands (1979). From an early age she is into drawing, painting and making the world around her more beautiful.
Her career has been anything but a straight path. She has a talent for numbers, but that didn’t bring the enjoyment she wanted. Having founded Rademaakt together with Petra-Puk, she satisfied that part plus the part that wants to make everything beautiful. In addition, it also supports her believe in sustainability; no need to replace complete kitchen-tops (for example). It is a small company that specialises in small repairs of kitchen-tops, floors, stairs, furniture anything not made of metal or glass. Ester is a perfectionist and re-creates surfaces as if nothing has happened. Because of her natural feeling for colours, she’s a star at repairing almost anything.
The artist has an incredible understanding of colour. Ester has been painting – acrylic and more recently also water colour paining. Water colour painting is a technique that is the perfect fit with the somewhat impatient nature of the artist. When painting a different kind of energy starts to flow. Freedom replaces perfection to allow for the creative flow to roam freely. Almost at the end of a creative process, her perfection kicks in, to add the finishing touch.