German
Textile appliqué
Ms. van Wynsberghe’s artistic education started at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt/M, Germany where she studied painting under Professor Ferdinand Lammeyer. Her great interest in languages led to the combination of text and images. Words are an integral part of the design but they are applied with a quizzical humor that raises prickly questions in the viewer’s mind and give her work its unsettling undercurrent.
As her work matured, Ms. van Wynsberghe was invited to teach her appliqué techniques at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Antwerp, Belgium and in 1973 she had the opportunity to move to Divonne-les-Bains near Geneva. For the next 15 years, she was able to focus entirely on her textile work supported by a Swiss TV program and numerous exhibitions in France and Switzerland. It was during this period, because of the international nature of the community around Geneva, that a world-wide interest in her textile pictures began to develop.
Over the years, Ms. van Wynsberghe has had 15 one-woman shows in Sweden, Switzerland and France and participated in many group shows.
Visit the Artist’s website at www.stines.se. Read about the other artists involved in this summer’s show, Absolut Art, at the Gallery by the River.