Visual Strolls
seasonal residency
Visual Strolls is a residency space for artists who share an affinity for landscapes and wilderness, inner and outer. Foresta is changing with every season as the real forest does. In cyclical circularity it celebrates changing seasons of nature and of our lives. As snow melts away, as days grow longer, as leaves change colour, as they fly with the wind, as stillness settles in, as warmth returns, as birds cross continents — at the turn of each seasonal moment we invite a different artist to bring a new time of the year by creating a portrait of time that later becomes part of the permanent Museum of Seasons.
Autumn 2022 Artist in Residence
Sarah van Dongen
Sarah is an illustrator based in Amsterdam. She has a passion for capturing little moments of daily life in her sketchbooks. Themes that Sarah likes to explore in her work are gardens and food, social interactions and mental health, and childhood and imagination. She also wants to make difficult subjects such as insecurity, loneliness, and loss comprehensible by illustrating these themes in an accessible way. Her illustrations are featured in magazines and children’s books.
Autumn Portrait 2022
“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”
About Visual Strolls
Visual Strolls is not only an online gallery, an exhibition room, a portrait into the work of the invited artist. It is also a part of our long-term research, understanding arts and creativity as forces that change human states of attention in manifold ways, as forms of cognition and perception, divergent perspectives and poetry of vision, access to intuition and imagination, and empowerment for conscious creation of culture. You can read more about Art into Life research here.
Cover image: Sarah van Dongen