Tineke Poelstra

Tineke Poelstra photographs nature in all its diversity.
Her love for this subject, combined with her painting background and her appreciation of light, produces unique images.
Nature is timeless, where everything is in motion and changing its shape – this is the basis of her work.

Tineke graduated from Amsterdam University of the Arts and studied Art History at the VU in Amsterdam.
She currently works as a visual artist and as a teacher of visual education.

Having graduated in painting and later moving to photography she looks at the world through the eye of a painter,but captures it as a photographer.
What she sees are brush strokes, visual techniques as used in engravings, sometimes a pen and ink medium and of course themes from art history.

Landscapes, vistas and still life are covered by her work:
“I draw inspiration from Rembrandt’s use of chiaroscuro, the emptiness in Hopper’s paintings, Monet’s colors and Turner’s vistas and his sometimes menacing skies. When I look around I see a brushstroke, an engraving or a still from a film in everything.
I inherited the love for nature from my parents as a child, so it is not surprising that nature is my greatest source of inspiration.”