Cis Bakker
Cis Bakker is a female painter and collage maker from the Netherlands. Painting and collage making run like a thread through all her activities.
She says: “For me, painting, drawing and making collages provides the joy of playing, experimenting and freedom. My work has evolved over the years; at art school, figurative art was ‘not done.’” “My interest started with Surrealism. Art that protested. Art that experimented. Art that freed and fed.”
“Current research includes social systems and structures around gender and autonomy, and social expectations through literature, and trial and error. I stumbled across anthroposophy and this led to my interest in making the invisible visible.”
Cis studied as a painter at Utrecht Academy for Visual Arts and later added four years of study at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht.