Andrea Haandrikman-Schraets is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in painting but extends far beyond the canvas. She explores the possibilities of mixed media by combining subjects, materials, and techniques in unconventional ways. Her practice moves fluidly between the studio and the road, often shaped by long-distance walking journeys through both familiar and foreign landscapes.
Projects such as the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and Dreams of Shikoku, along Japan’s 88-temple route, are not only physical experiences but also artistic processes. Created along the way, with just a backpack as a mobile workspace, the projects carried out on the route are deeply connected to stories and participants. Technology, internet and painting serve as her primary tools, used in dialogue with the changing rhythm of the walk.
Whether working on the road or in her studio in the Netherlands, Andrea is continuously drawn to the theme of freedom — especially as embodied by powerful women. This ongoing exploration has resulted in a series of works exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her art reflects inner strength, silence, and contrast: steel and jute balanced with softness and light, solid forms meeting translucent, illuminated elements that shift with their surroundings.
Andrea finds deep inspiration in nature and solitude. The natural world serves not only as a backdrop, but as a quiet collaborator in her creative process. Her work is an invitation into a layered, reflective space — one where stories, strength, vulnerability and the tension between materials and ideas are allowed to coexist.
The art of Andrea Haandrikman-Schraets is characterized by a use of diverse media, based in a traditional visual art practice in acrylic paintings.
Theme’s in her paintings are: a.o. stories, searches for insight and contradictions based in nature.
Her versatile work combines contrasting materials, rough and refined, opaque and transparent materials.
A reflection of reality that appears to be transparent and clear, but is only partly. The art work changes, under different circumstances.
Her installations and social cultural art is based on some of the following theme’s: a.o. freedom, story-telling, connection and technology.
Insightful and confrontational projects consist of (interactive) installations, light, film and digital works.
The art on this website offers insight into some of her work from the past five years.
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Dreams of Shikoku
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