Till Death Do Us Part

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 Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.