Ingrid Simons in Berlijn

Even an artist sometimes needs a break from the studio to get some new inspiration. Every once in a while me and my car take a short roadtrip "aufs Land". This a short image report of a great inspirational Sunday at Schwielowsee, about 40 minutes outside of Berlin. This is Einsteins'view! Yes, really! I visited Einsteins Sommerhaus. The table here underneath was the place where he sat, thinking and writing, with this view, every year from April through November, if I remeber correctly. I followed the road around the lake, to visit this castle and small museum, with great Dutch Masters in there collection. an a beautiful ceramic tiled room Then the trip went to the Museum Havellaendischen Malerkolonie, small but inspirational. With a lot of inspiring qoutes of painters visiting or moving to these beautiful, natural surroundings, with whom i can relate:

PAINT Some details of my fresh paintings

PAINTING SESSIONS HAVE STARTED :)!

Liebermann's Villa in Wannsee,  one of my all time favorite inspirational places in the surrounding areas of Berlin.  After the war his villa and gardens were re-build after the orginal plans. It reminds of the gardens of Monet. Always a perfect place to reconnect and regain energy after some intense painting sessions in the studio last week. As I am here three months, I want to visit these gardens every month to see the change and progress in these gardens, now that I have the chance . The work in the studio is going well. Already the concept of two thematic series have arisen and I have started painting them. (P.s. this first series on small scale, a "historic" series, will be (partly) on show during the exhibition "Lockdown Berlin, Past, Present, Future" at Livingstone Gallery, The Hague.  I will return from Berlin shortly to elaberate about these new serie on show (freshly painted) during the meet & greet on Sunday the ...

This is a photo of the first week of the residency. I always have to get acquianted with the studio, the noises, the light. And also clear my mind, get new impressions and connect with the place and location I will be working in. The city of Berlin I have already known a long time (about 20 years I have been coming and going), but then espcially the neighbourhood of Kreuzberg, around Gorli. With this residency it was relatively easy, because I have worked here before when Livingstone Projects Berlin invited me for the first time in 2018. I started with writing down thoughts, walking around the neighbourhood, making plans, settling in the studio and investigating through internet. During this residency I will paint a new collection for the solo exhibition at Livingstone Gallery, The Hague, that will open in November. During a residency it is so good to fully concentrate and emerge myself fully into my work and research. An...

My first exhibition stop, when I arrived in Berlin, and a very important one : "Places / Orte" Claude Monet Barberini Museum in Potsdam. It was quite difficult to get a ticket in these strange times, but I managed! A beautiful Monet exhibition, especially because I thought to have seen a lot of the beautiful Monet's in the The Hague exhibition in January, but all different paintings. The fascination we share of bodies of water. it is unbelievable how he paint these series, especially the series where it gets more and more foggy, or more and more abstract. It was perfect timing, to get much painterly inspiration before starting this 3 month residency. Some close ups, which I find fascinating : These "redondo" Nympheas are very special to me and especially to meeting them again in this exhibition! I have, up till now visited th...

STUDIO VIEW BERLIN 2020 Having the luxioury of seeing a garden from my studio. Very much reminding me of Monet. And Liebermann, of course.