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Website: http://www.artsonja.blogspot.com

College / University: LABA Fine arts academy Florence, Italy

Program: painting

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking

I am...: happy to be here

Artists I like: Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys, Marlene Dumas, Carol Rama, Tracey Emin

The centre of the artworld is: nowhere and everywhere

Sonja de Graaf's Blog

La mostra di domani!!

FRAGILE a cura di Sara Paradisi e Alessio Trapassi con la partecipazione dell’ Associazione Culturale Spazio 126 La prestigiosa sede del Palazzo Comunale di Siena ospiterà dal 25 aprile al 4 maggio 2008 “Fragile”, collettiva di arte contemporanea a cura di Sara Paradisi e Alessio Trapassi, realizzata grazie al contributo dell’Amministrazione Comunale e con la partecipazione dell’Associazione Culturale Spazio 126.… Continue

Posted on 24th April 2008 at 10:00am â€” 2 Comments

tired and emotional

This friday i'll be taking part in a group show in siena. Th guy that organized the show is really great, but, as most italians not very well oganized. Good thing he's hooked up with this girl who did part of the curating, but it was up to me to do the catalogue. I am very glad I offerdìed to do so, because the guy that was supposed to take care of the graphics did a terrible job on the invites and at least now I am sure to have something good to show to people, but I cannot begin to tell you ho… Continue

Posted on 23rd April 2008 at 10:35pm â€”

positive side of my work

One of the positive things is that I get to work outside, like today for instance. It was very sunny and warm so it was nice painting one of the sculptures in front of the studio.

Posted on 23rd April 2008 at 4:58pm â€”

Working as an assistant!!

Hello, my name is Sonja and I am (as are many on this website) an artist. But that's not all....I am also working as an artist's assistant!! This is great for a numerous amount os reasons, but it can also be very very difficult... since most artists and other creative people consider themselves the center of the universe.... to be continued...

Posted on 23rd April 2008 at 9:54am â€”

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At 7:55pm on 10th June 2008, Quaymberley Bianca Dudley said…: Your paintings are pretty. I like them. Also saw the red photos :) which are very different to the portraits. Looking forward to what else u have.

At 2:10pm on 3rd June 2008, Frank Fu said…: Interesting works!
Please check out my site
cheers,

Frank Fu

At 5:15pm on 20th May 2008, Christian Moeller said…: Hi Sonja, I thank you a lot! I just saw that you live in Italy today. Comunque un bello giorno per te! And at any rate you should show me your photos, if you lke. That would be amazing. First of all I wish you the very best for all of your future advancement.

The cream of the crop for you here from Berlin

Christian

At 8:55pm on 2nd May 2008, Mona Moon said…: u are so welcome...have in my profile the erotic art group..maybe u want add some ur work there..will be nice kiss mona

At 8:32pm on 2nd May 2008, PHILOXENIA said…: Life is a dream to work on!

Earth Spirit

Nautilus © Josephine Wall
Mother Earth - Pan and his flutes
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Life! Where did we come from? Where are we going? Out of the vastness of space a sequence of events beginning with the tiniest of life forms ignites the spiral of evolution. Through fish, plants, animals and birds the path eventually leads to mankind. A pool of life bringing water cascades from the treetops to form a pathway to a bright and hopeful future.

EXHIBITION 1, Josephine Wall
EXHIBITION II, Unique and EggCellent

Greetings from Greece
Long Week (Ester Week) just started here.
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At 10:57am on 24th April 2008, elisa said…: Hi Sonja, thanks for the nice comment.
I am originally from a small village near Mantova - not much happening there but quite pretty.
Elisa

At 1:57pm on 23rd April 2008, Hans van der Kamp said…: Fascinated by your works. Thank you!

At 11:26am on 23rd April 2008, Phil Illingworth said…: Thanks for the add. :) Have you seen the curators group?

At 11:19am on 23rd April 2008, Sonja de Graaf said…: Thanks for the comment Phil. I hope some usefull questions and answers will come out of this... ofcourse in the end we all still think our own ideas are the best and listening to good advice is very very hard...but I have learned a lot from other people's experiences so why not give it a shot?!?

At 11:05am on 23rd April 2008, Phil Illingworth said…: Dear Sonja
Great idea, the Art FAQ group - I imagine you will be inundated by artists asking how to approach galleries in particular. I have noticed, on this site for example, how many people 'spam' galleries with comments saying 'please look at my work' etc. I wonder how many have even first taken a look at the type of work a gallery deals in, never mind considered the many many hundreds of unsolicited submissions galleries receive in the post and by email. Best, Phil