Mathilde de Doelder

I would like to tell you more about a very special artist within Art Gallery Pot: Roeland van der Kley. A few years ago I received a very special message from Roeland: 'I would love to show you what I'm working on. It's going to be really beautiful and I can see the work now approaching the final stage of painting. Three substantial paintings about the life of Mathilde de Doelder (Willink) that together form the triptych. It's almost done.'

The words of Roeland van der Kley somewhere around April of 2019. After that, he personally came to show his beautiful triptych about Mathilde de Doelder at Art Gallery Pot. A beautiful woman, a remarkable figure and in recent months a great inspiration in the work of Roeland. During several meetings he tells me about his fascination with Mathilde, interested and intrigued I follow his personal blog.

I knew immediately: we have to show this at Art Gallery Pot. Roeland's paintings hang at Pot Interieur, surrounded by beautiful design furniture. The perfect picture to get acquired with his work. With his fantastic stories, he takes you through the history of his works, the myths and the figures behind the oil paint. Another world, before your eyes…2020 was all about “Terhole's triplets”, as is often the case, Roeland comes across a story that grabs his attention and doesn't let go. The triplets are a beautiful work, three ladies dressed in red coats on a polder road, with the chopped trees behind them. A story, a meaning, an depicted reality (which is as important now as it was in the past).

I have developed an interior advice especially for this powerful visual work on the occasion of the publication of Roeland's book about the triplets. It gives a good insight into the process of art-interior advice, which is unique in the Gallery world. In this video I explain the different steps within the interior advice: colors, art, material, contrast, decoration, lighting and more are discussed. Roeland also tells the story behind the work, the story of the Drieling and the artwork itself. We invite you to watch the short documentary below: