Michelle Jager (b. 1962) is a Dutch contemporary figurativeartist who lives and works in New York. She is currently studying with theRoyal Drawing School in London.
Her work is autobiographical, referencing both earlier art,especially art from the Dutch Golden Age with its focus on scenes from dailylife and portraiture, and art from more contemporary painters such as LucianFreud, Alice Neel and Paula Rego.
During her year at the Royal Drawing School, Michelle becamemore and more interested in combining the autobiographical with stories fromliterature, poems and mythology as a way of expressing and communicating herviews on motherhood, family and society.
Her preferred mediums are oil paint and charcoal, which sheuses in sensitive yet bold and expressive manner.
Sisters
110cm x 80cm
Oil on board
Little girl
21cm x 29cm
Charcoal on paper
Apples
21cm x 29cm
Watercolour on paper
Tree
21cm x 29cm
Charcoal on paper
Self portrait with leaf
21cm x 29cm
Charcoal on paper
Three cups
29cm x 42cm
Oil on board
Venus and Adonis
29cm x 42cm
Oil on paper
Rose
29cm x 42cm
Charcoal on paper
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