- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Official: salonserpent.com
Background:
Her work is deceptively simple, instantly recognisable and often humorous. Classic old school tattoo imagery mixed with mythological dreams, antropomorphed critters, nautical iconography and haunting Hollywood romance by way of Angelique's distinctive painterly magic and eye for style.
This is her nostalgic, eclectic and beautifully rendered artistic wonderland.
I was born in Uithoorn, a small town under the smoke of Amsterdam. As I moved to the big city at 18, I soon figured out I wanted to be a tattooartist. There where few shops at the time and it was difficult finding an apprenticeship.
I worked all sorts of odd jobs, administrative, seamstress, piercer, waitress, studied a bit and made music in different bands. At 30 I finally got my foot in the door of a tattoo parlor and everything went
uphill from there. I discovered that drawing and working in the old timey sailor style is where my passion was. If I wasn’t drawing for tattoos I drew to learn and for fun. When a good friend taught me how to paint like the old timers painted their flash, I was hooked. At tattoo conventions I started selling the paintings I made as reproductions. This is when Australia based gallery Outré started selling my prints. Since then I’ve been exhibiting worldwide. My prints are available at a variety of galleries and thru my own website.
Some of my work today might not be as recognisable as tattoo influenced as my inspiration comes from so many different directions now. I spend most of my time painting, but still tattoo a bit as well.
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