Kitty van de Rijt

Kitty
van de Rijt

Detail of a painting: crimson and slate breaking through a pale, worked ground.
Fragment · Icarus Acrylic on linen

Since 1987

“It only makes sense
when it stops making sense.”
Deep Ocean, a wide horizontal canvas of pale greys and drifting warm light.
Deep Ocean  ·  200 × 100 cm Whole Fragment

The canvases are layered and multidimensional. At times they flow from left to right, then back again. From the inside out, and back.

A journey for the orderly, a festival for those who embrace chaos. The work has no other purpose than to touch the soul. To encourage looking. To amaze, to draw you in, to get lost in.

Fragment: ochre and violet dissolving into a chalk-white field.
Fragment · Arise
Fragment: orange and scarlet welling up beside a knot of black.
Fragment · Pegasus
Window to Imagination, an ivory canvas crossed by a low band of scarlet and amber.
Window to Imagination  ·  150 × 120 cm Whole Fragment

Yet the paintings depict stories. The canvases conceal objects, living creatures, planets and elements. You meet yourself within the painting and encounter what reveals itself along the way. That is how it works.

Collected works 2026

01 Future 250 × 200 cm 02 Icarus 300 × 200 cm 03 Deep Ocean 200 × 100 cm 04 Prediction 250 × 200 cm 05 Arise 250 × 200 cm 06 Pegasus 150 × 120 cm 07 Window to Imagination 150 × 120 cm

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