Saskia Boelsums was born in Nieuwer-Amstel in the Netherlands. She grew up in Iran and Curacao. Boelsums studied Graphic and Spatial Design at the Academy Minerva in Groningen, the Netherlands. Since 2013 she focuses on photography and was given a great number of nominations and prizes. Saskia is a member of GKf and DuPho, Dutch Photographers, association of professional photographers and Canson Infinity Ambassador. She exhibited her work in Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Hong Kong and New York. Her artworks are included in various art collections. She is awarded Dutch artist of the year 2020, meaning: the most beloved Dutch visual artist.
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“Then I see Saskia Boelsums’ landscape photos on display.
A shiver of pleasure runs through me.”
Joyce Roodnat – art critic NRC Handelsblad, the Netherlands
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“Boelsums works transcends photography. They are not so much photographs, they are works of art that also refer to painters. That combination is magical. It is as if she uses photography to paint. Look at the photos. The way she plays with color. Is it a drawing? Is it graphic art? Sense the impressionistic feeling, the artistic quality. All this makes it a fantastic work to add to our collection.”
Annemiek Rens MA, Chief Curator of the Drents Museum, the Netherlands
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“Enchanted by the same landscapes that inspired Paulus Potter, Van Ruisdael and Willem Maris, Saskia shares a sensibility, as well as her subject matter, with the great Dutch skies, lonely beaches, and impossibly tangled bramble fields reveal a similar sensitivity to space, light and texture, wich she cultivated over years. Reveling in the constraints imposed by the square, Saskia challenges herself with each work to capture the real (and the magical) within the most rational forms.”
Morris Adjmi, New York, USA
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“I call myself a visual artist with a camera. My landscape photography is very much about what I feel when I take the photo. It’s all about how I perceive the landscape at a certain moment. It’s a very personal approach that makes my landscape photos more picturesque, more impressionistic and more emotional too.
My work has been exhibited in many major cities – like New York, London, Berlin, Moscow, Amsterdam, Copenhagen – in galleries, at art fairs and in museums. It’s great and I enjoy it tremendously. But when I walk into the field on a stormy day or see the waves battering the coastline, I feel that that’s where it all began. Being surrounded by nature and experiencing it to the full, feeling small and surrendering to something bigger than myself.”
Saskia Boelsums from her third book Artist with a camera
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