Anyone old enough to remember the water colour paintings and wash and pen drawings of Britain's J.H. Dowd will delight in the work of Lotte Klaver, a refreshing new artist from Amsterdam who captures the fleeting activities of children with an unerring touch.
Like Dowd, she wields a photographic brush - but unlike the former master of child portraiture, she reveals her subjects in their every mood, framing her pictures with bold silhouettes or broad one-colour backgrounds.
"I'm looking," she says, "to show longing, sensuality, beauty, ugliness, self-reflection, shame and more in the faces and bodies of my characters."
Lotte Klaver was born in 1981 in Alkmaar (The Netherlands). Since graduation from the Amsterdam School Of Arts, she has been living and working as an artist in Amsterdam.
- Website http://www.lotteklaver.nl
"From 1999 to 2003 I attended the academy of fine arts in Amsterdam (AHK). In the beginning of 2005 I started my drawing blog at www.lotteklaver.nl which has attracted many visitors from around the world. I love having such a broad and diverse audience. In the past couple of years I've exhibited now and then in group shows, I would love to expand this and will participate in exhibitions more frequently this year."
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