Herma de Wit 🇳🇱

Herma de Wit-Orobio de Castro’s artistic work encompasses bronze sculptures, objects, drawings, etchings, and monotypes, which strikingly reflect her deep connection with nature. She finds inspiration during her many travels around the world, from which she always brings flora home. In the isolated fragments of flora, she explores the delicate balance between fragility and strength that nature offers. In her recent creations, this exploration takes a more abstract form, where rhythm plays a significant role. The isolated fragments undergo graphic abstraction and transform into understated forms that transcend ordinary perception. De Wit-Orobio de Castro fearlessly challenges artistic boundaries. In both her monotypes and bronze sculptures, strength and vulnerability are played off against each other. The fragile, thin Japanese paper is in perfect balance with the fragments of fossil flora, pressed onto the paper with considerable pressure. The bronze sculptures contain matching pieces of fossilized flora, the unyielding, rock-hard bronze serving as a support for these delicate fossils, perfectly balancing the tension they evoke.