Most of the time Annelies Jonkhart lives and works in Zaandam, Holland. Recently however, inspired by her travels in the United States, she has been painting in Salt Lake City, Utah for a few months out of the year. She paints, in a realistic manner, mostly items which show the signs of the time but still serve a purpose in this day and age. The combination of these objects with for example a variety of fruits, results in a harmony of colors.
Annelies: "I prefer to use enamel objects in the traditional Dutch colors of a crisp blue and white, just like it could have been sitting on a farmers shelf in years gone by. Sometimes the objects will have been damaged or rusted, but the expression is still there. That is what I am trying to convey on the panel, the color balance and the material expression have the highest priority."