Vine-yards called En Noche 1976

This etching of vineyards called En Noche was made by Hubertine Heijermans in 1976, and right away, I feel like I’m looking at a landscape that’s been built and rebuilt. The act of painting constructs this place bit by bit, line by line. I imagine Heijermans carefully scratching each line into the plate. It's like a meditative act, building up the image with this intricate network of marks. You can almost feel the artist's hand moving across the surface, deciding where each line should go, how dark or light it should be. I can almost see the artist in a conversation with other landscape painters like Cezanne, each of them rethinking how we see the world. Painting offers us so many ways of seeing, thinking, and experiencing. Each gesture, each mark is a form of embodied expression, open to multiple interpretations. It's an ongoing conversation, an exchange of ideas across time, that inspires creativity in all of us.