Educated as a designer at the Rietveld Academy, Margot van de Stolpe has had her own studio in Amsterdam, and at that time made monumental roll shutter designs and murals. After that she established The Monumental Tile and designed and produced wall art for interiors. Besides her monumental designs, she currently creates autonomous Tropistic art and works on a regular base together with Robin Noorda. Her work is characterised by a powerfull, virtuous design-lining combined with an expressive monumental idiom.
' Within the tropistic movement I have been busy with patterns and structures in nature and in plantlife.
Patterns are for me the foundation, the direction, the informative code along which all living things are formed. They provide growth of an organism by repetition of the fixed basic form, as in fractal geometry. The underlying structure in my work is therefore under pressure and is moulded and distorted in order to come to a new reality.'
In my layered photocomposition I apply stratification and depth. Some parts of my photo's are accentuated by using visual tools, other parts I let dissapear. I am like a composer with photographic material and I feel like a painter making layer after layer.
Coincidence playes an important part and once in the flow it goes its own way and makes its mark. Mirroring and reflecting is an other aspect of my work, emerging constantly, appearing to be an essential element in the way I express myself. As above so below it seems to be. Both in the macro as in the micro world, they mirror each other.'
' Within the tropistic movement I have been busy with patterns and structures in nature and in plantlife.
Patterns are for me the foundation, the direction, the informative code along which all living things are formed. They provide growth of an organism by repetition of the fixed basic form, as in fractal geometry. The underlying structure in my work is therefore under pressure and is moulded and distorted in order to come to a new reality.'
In my layered photocomposition I apply stratification and depth. Some parts of my photo's are accentuated by using visual tools, other parts I let dissapear. I am like a composer with photographic material and I feel like a painter making layer after layer.
Coincidence playes an important part and once in the flow it goes its own way and makes its mark. Mirroring and reflecting is an other aspect of my work, emerging constantly, appearing to be an essential element in the way I express myself. As above so below it seems to be. Both in the macro as in the micro world, they mirror each other.'
F L O R A I M A G O : W H I T E Tropistic floral portraits.
This series captures the essence of the fleeting and airy existence of flowers in a watercoloristic way in botanical photograms. The collection forms a contemporary herbarium with compositional references to Ikebana in which the light is allowed to flood the plant like a blistering dawn.
This series captures the essence of the fleeting and airy existence of flowers in a watercoloristic way in botanical photograms. The collection forms a contemporary herbarium with compositional references to Ikebana in which the light is allowed to flood the plant like a blistering dawn.
Mum, Pale, Poppies, Eruption, Schmooch, Wilted, Talking Heads, Purple Explosion, Iris, Stamina
F L O R A I M A G O : OB S C U R E Tropistic floral portraits.
Botanical photograms used to collect an herbarium in which the images capture the outline of essence.
Disclosure, FlowerBomb, Cover Up
F L O R A S A U V A G E The series Wild Flowers
Tropistic floral still life. Photography and collage.
F L O R A S A U V A G E The series Wild Flowers
Tropistic floral still life. Photography and collage.
TROPISTIC LANDSCAPES The series WATERWORKS
TROPISTIC LANDSCAPES The series WATERWORKS
TROPISTIC NATURALISM
Surreal view on the natural world. Photography with a twist.
Surreal view on the natural world. Photography with a twist.
FLOCKING SHAPESCAPES The series GRASS HOPPINGS
Photography and Illusion
Swarms of insects in apparently random formations, leaves and seeds and the synchronous choreography of swarming birds and schools of fish, were the inspiration for a series of illusionary photographs of landscapes with swarming grass cubes.
MIRRORING LANDSCAPES
Photo composition of various elements of landscapes (and) buildings.
Photo composition of various elements of landscapes (and) buildings.
SURPRISING GREEN OBJECTS The series GREEN SHIELD 1, 2 and 3
Photo collage graphics
Collages of photographed plant parts, combined into a spectacular, new and strangely associative symmetry.
´Surprisingly green objects in which to take shelter and find peace amidst the urban vigour...´
Photo collage graphics
Collages of photographed plant parts, combined into a spectacular, new and strangely associative symmetry.
´Surprisingly green objects in which to take shelter and find peace amidst the urban vigour...´
PATTERNS & NATURE
Photo collage graphic compositions
Interaction between one fractal structure and an other in the natural environment and decorative patterns as the ones used on crockery, tiles, textile and for instance in architecture and the last work is a drawing from a moulded photographic picture.
Photo collage graphic compositions
Interaction between one fractal structure and an other in the natural environment and decorative patterns as the ones used on crockery, tiles, textile and for instance in architecture and the last work is a drawing from a moulded photographic picture.
