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Who Is She??

Lily Van Der Stokker is a Dutch artist based on New York and Amsterdam. Her pieces are childlike, colourful and simple are are based on everyday experiences, beauty, love and relationships.

The simplicity of her work is seen as quite controversial and challenging, which has meant she has become a very important artist, especially in post-feminist spaces.

She explores the decorative, sentimental and nice, designing her pieces on paper with felt tips, crayons and highlighters before painting them directly onto the gallery walls.

I found a book of Van Der Stokker's work while browsing the library. The book is called "It Doesn't Mean Anything But It Looks Good", and is covered in beautiful pastel and bright colours, with a sofa and lots of flowers. Immediately I knew this was an artist I was going to like, I knew she would have a similar philosophy as me when it comes to art practice; almost being in touch with her inner child, not being afraid to make things that have little or no meaning, using baby pinks and pastel blues, and narrating her works with text that seems like it popped into her head as she was making.

The book ends with an interview with John Waters, which I found interesting as it allowed me to get a look into who she was as a person in correlation to her art. Here are some of my favourite parts, scanned directly from the pages of the book: