”...Covid-blue is the light at the end of the tunnel.”
- Jurjen K. van der Hoek (journalist)

We live in a fast visual culture but why do some images stay with us while others don’t?  I am fascinated by the selective memory of our way of looking. What determines your gaze? What makes you see that one image? Remember that specific image? How does someone else see that picture? And can it be influenced?

As a visual artist I investigate the combination of figurative images with abstract color fields. I’m interested in how they reinforce, affect and agitate each other. By disrupting the image I want to slow down the viewer, thereby intensifying their process of visual exploration. A ‘slow-watching’ you might say.

Gabrielle Kroese (1963, Rotterdam) is an artist, color hunter, photographer and a (vegetable) gardener, living in the Netherlands. Her artistic practice involves painting, photography, (self)publishing, slow-watching and color research.

In addition, she was a member of several art advisory committees and coached some masterclass students.

Kroese worked as artist in residence in Reykjavik, Iceland (2015), Itoshima, Japan (2018) and the Sierra de Maria, Spain (2024)