About Paulette Snijders, painter and sculptor
Paulette Snijders-Bremen, born in the Netherlands, Kerkrade (1946) studied in Maastricht at the Art Academy (monumental) and the Jan van Eyck Academy. She completed her education with workshops/courses with the painter Frans de Haas in The Hague (etchings), the Academie Delft (Indonesian batik) and a study in philosophy in Heerlen.
The artist has worked in Germany, Spain, Algeria and various places in the Netherlands. Her view on life is based on the protective Western culture, partly determined by her four-year stay in Spain, the struggle for life in the desert country of Algeria and the many trips to exotic places. Her stay in the Mediterranean landscape has had a great influence on her artworks.
The main motive in Paulette's work is emotion. Love, anger, restlessness, aggression, warmth and constant lack of time run like a thread through every work of art by this Limburg artist. Her creative inspiration is an escape from reality that manifests itself in dream images. Themes are often the depiction of movement, music and myths, but also the woman who loves, is elusive and transparent in her being.