"An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?"

- Francis Ford Coppola -

Fenna's most important points of departure are architecture and streetart, particularly the battle between upcoming prosperous urban capitalism and the struggling disadvantaged districts in the densely populated big cities of this world.

The beauty of the brightly coloured work can be described as provoking the viewers' senses to think about the inevitable, metropolitan amalgamation of different cultures and lifestyles.

Everywhere around you there's replenishment and complement. It's there, but very often mistaken for resistance and opposition

Fenna's message:

"Open your eyes! See that living next to eachother shapes the actual community."

Fenna van der Vliet is known for her large-scale dynamic digital collages, built up through hundreds of layers of photography, enriched with acrylic paints on dibond surfaces and finishes as resin and glass.

Fenna van der Vliet is one of the earliest artists in Mixed Media Art movement and evolving every day, as environment around us does...