During the past few years I created small and large drawings.  I exhibited a large selection of these drawings made on paper with pencil, watercolour, chalk and charcoal at S&H De Buck Gallery Gent, Belgium last year. These drawings are the imaginations of everyday ordinary things that unfold in and around me; both inside and outside.  They are small things that touch me, such as: a drowned spot, feeling a quivering line on the sheet, the insanity of a form, making it disappear and covering up what was there before, a translucent glimpse, drawing with a stick, with long legs on stockinged feet, the blue thread of the washing line…

Then there are the “Criatura”: they are spirit people, animal people who live in an intermediate world. They are, for example, dressed in sheepskin or shrouded in the feathers of a bird. This is unusual. They remind us of what should be felt but not seen, and guard the unconscious. My fascination is with the contact point between the subconscious layers in the human being as an individual and his/her creative capacity.

May Oostvogels