BASIC INFORMATION

Name: Jeannette Turpijn- van Duinen, 19-09-1946
Place of birth: Willemstad, Curaçao
Based in: Bunnik, The Netherlands
Discipline: painting, drawing, mixed media, 2D

BIOGRAPHY
At the age of 16, Jeannette Turpijn née van Duinen, moved to the Netherlands. She works with mixed media, mostly on paper. Her work pictures the landscape of her youth, not the actual landscape but her memories of this island: fragments of remembrances recalled by fragrances or music. Colour plays an important role: the blues of the sea, the reds of the earth, the pastel shades of the houses. Her work is about an island called youth, inaccessible now, places and times no longer there, about melancholy and longings.

STUDY
Studied sociology at Utrecht University. Graduated from the Nieuwe Akademie in Utrecht in 2006.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2006-2019 Participation annual art trail in Bunnik
2006-2024 Gallery Alma Blou, Curaçao
2006-Galerie de Blauwe Tulp, Culemborg
2006-Galerie De Rosmolen, Zelhem
2013-MaCloud Gallery, Bilthoven
2014- Dom Café, Domkerk, Utrecht
2019-‘Grenzeloze Sensatie’, Galerie De BeeldenTuin, Zwammerdam
2020-bookpresentation and exhibition in Gallery Alma Blou, Curaçao
2022-‘Rijk van Kleur’, in collaboration with photographer Astrid Eijkelenboom, Galerie De Cultuurhoek, Driebergen
2024, 2026-particpation in group exhibition in galerie De Cultuurhoek, Driebergen

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2020 Terug naar Bullenbaai, herinneringen aan een Isla-kind, Curaçao 1946-1962