BIO
In Siona Snel’s work, the exploration of material, layering, and form takes center stage. She works primarily in mixed media, combining paint, paper, textiles, and found objects. Natural materials play a vital role in her visual language, their texture, impermanence, and purity contribute to the atmosphere and meaning within her compositions. Each material carries its own history and significance, and it is in the encounter between these layers that her works come to life.
Snel’s art often moves within the realm of abstraction, where suggestion and emotion speak more powerfully than literal representation. Recurring themes include nature, memory, and the traces left by time. Her process is intuitive and guided by contrast, fragile yet strong, transparent yet opaque, fleeting yet enduring. The balance between chance and intention is an essential element of her creative approach.
Her work invites the viewer to come closer, to observe the details and subtle imperfections that reveal themselves upon repeated looking. Ultimately, Siona Snel seeks to create a harmony between the tangible qualities of material and the unseen layers of emotion, memory, and imagination.
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Born in 1977 in Woerden, The Netherlands
Resides en workshop in Haarlem, The Netherlands
Selected exhibitions
2025, Duna atelier Katwijk
2025, Solo expositie KUNSTelage Haarlem
2025, Expositie Nature Matters Kloostergangen Haarlem
2025, Expositie Zwart/ Wit Kloostergangen Haarlem
2024, Expositie Ins Blau Leiden
2024, Torenlaan Theater Zeist
2024, Expositie VanOoijen Accountants
2024, KZOD Expositie Groen-Blauw in de Kloostergangen Haarlem
2024, Expositie "Winters geluk" bij de Kulturele Raad in Hillegom
2024, Bloem onverbloemd expositie Kloostergangen Haarlem
2024, Expositie zonder naam - DUNA art Katwijk
2024, Galerie De Waag Haarlem
2023, Basalt Den Haag
2023, Solo expositie Beauforthuis Austerlitz
2023, Alphen Art Event
2023, Expositie Kleurenpracht
2022 - Zomerkunst expositie Den Dolder
2018, Expositie De Verdieping Veldhoven
2015, Expositie 't Oude Slot Veldhoven