Charlotte Molenkamp - acrylic on panel - signed lower left

Charlotte Molenkamp (Tilburg, 1955) studied at the St. Joost Academy in Breda and then attended the Art Academy in her hometown of Tilburg.

She is the daughter of the famous painter Nico Molenkamp. She spent her youth at “Koningshoeven” where she grew up in an environment focused on visual arts. Closely connected to nature, the silence and the changing of the seasons.
Charlotte Molenkamp mainly paints gouaches and oil paintings: “I am actually left-handed, but I have learned to use my right hand as well. That is no longer an effort for me. I work with both hands at the same time, because painting is activity number one for me; the story follows automatically. In my right hand I have a palette knife and in my left my brush, usually a flat, wide brush, a spalter. I am always breaking down and building up. Someone once asked me if I do not make preliminary studies. I replied that the preliminary studies were all underneath!”
Her work is sometimes abstract, sometimes on the edge of figurative and recently also shows human figures more often that are depicted sketchily, but that always remain interwoven with the background of the canvases. Charlotte Molenkamp's work is primary, dynamic and fierce, aimed at conveying strong emotions by the shortest possible route. The canvases are often large in size, which makes the impression even more overwhelming. However, amidst all the colorful explosions of paint, a sense of balance and harmony is always preserved and the power of the first impression gradually makes way for a sense of coherence and order in the viewer.
Charlotte Molenkamp's work is included in numerous important collections, including that of the Royal House.