The Wedding Poster

Ingrid Rooms Khan is a self-taught painter from Belgium, now living in Sweden, who started painting to transform her home. She creates mostly wall-sized pieces, some as large as 7 meters, that combine dark themes with playful, childlike imagination, drawing on a wide range of literary and artistic influences. Ingrid sees herself working in a tradition connecting to and transforming existing artistic ideas. She can state numerous different sources of inspiration for each painting. Her process is inventive yet deliberately imprecise; she paints with unconventional tools like broken implements, sandpaper, scraps of packaging, and pouring liquid paints to get a more happenstance approach where one’s brain has to make sense of what the hand does instead of the other way round. While tools may vary, color is non-negotiable; she insists on the highest quality paint for its irreplaceable rich pigmentation to provide the best color. Not being very happy with her surroundings upon returning from vibrant Asia, she turned her discontent into a need for change. With limited resources, she transformed the space: doors were covered with Malaysian fabrics, floors softened with books and vinyl records, and the walls became giant canvases for her art. With great affinity for Far Eastern art, children's book illustrations, and textile inspiration her work is a visual mixture of something that is specific to her. These posters came about as a response to people’s request for smaller, more decorative works.

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