About Sylvia van der Weide

Sylvia van der Weide worked for an International Advertising Agency in Amsterdam. Later, she ran her own freelance business for over three years. She started painting in her free time and very quickly it became a passion. For the last fifteen years she has discovered the qualities of water colour, acrylic and oil. She started out painting with a group of Dutch painters and sold several paintings to companies and private collectors. When she moved to the South of France she joined the art association "Le Hangar" first doing oil painting and later on working in acrylics. Her experience has been that the acrylic medium gave her more freedom to express her inner emotions with the colours and shapes on a larger scale. Having lived in several countries and having traveled around the world, her paintings reflect her experiences and her emotions. She brings together on canvas, the colours of the cultures that she has discovered on her travels. On a blank canvas, she manages to put together her experience of a multitude of cultures. Through bold shapes and bright colours, Sylvia presents to us her vivid world full of joie de vivre. Believing that her paintings are a map of her life, individually they represent the pieces to the puzzle of her life, forever growing. Sylvia exhibits on the Côte d'Azur:

	July 2011	Theoule sur Mer, Espace Culturel	Abstract Vibrations 1 - International Group of Artists.
	February 2012	Valbonne Village, Salle St.Esprit,	Abstract Vibrations 2 - International Group of Artists.
	July 2013	Valbonne Centre, Gallery CasaBlu
	April/May 2014	Theoule sur Mer, Espace Culturel	Abstract Vibrations 3 - International Group of Artists.
	July 2014	Valbonne Centre, Gallery CasaBlu
	July/August 2014	Gordes, Espace des Arts
	Summer 2015	Slot Zeist, The Netherlands
	April/May 2016	Antibes and Monaco, The English Osteopath