Doen navraag oor Karien se werk:
Enquire about Karien’s work:
Karien hou van die lewe. Haar huis en hart staan oop vir vriende en diegene wat haar nodig het. Sy bederf besoekers graag en kosmaak is vir haar ‘n skeppende proses. Dis ook ‘n heerlike manier om die goeie wat die lewe bied, te vier.
“Karien is bedrywig - sy is nooit verveeld en lusteloos nie,” sê ‘n vriendin. “Daar is iets in haar wat altyd ‘n kind sal bly en soos ‘n wilde meisiekind met ‘n dik bos geel hare warrel sy heeldag rond.”
Skilder is vir haar ‘n passie en iets wat sy eers later in haar lewe begin beoefen het. Haar drie kinders was al redelik groot toe sy beeldende kunste aan UNISA studeer het. Skilder beteken vir haar meer as om net mooi prentjies te teken. Dit verg selfdissipline en die moed om ‘n mens se siel bloot te lê. Die skaduwees in ‘n skilder se lewe soek ook uitdrukking en erkenning op die doek.
“Ek wil kuns maak waarby my kleinkinders kan sit en pap eet.” Hierdie woorde van Paul Cezanne inspireer Karien Boonzaaier daagliks. Sy wil ‘n boodskap van lewe en lig oordra - iets wat die kyker goed sal laat voel. Haar geloof is vir haar belangrik. Die Griekse woord ‘Parakletos’ verskyn altyd onder haar naam in haar skilderye. Dit beteken “die Heilie Gees as my helper, berader, vertrooster en advokaat”.
Karien en haar man is lief vir reis en haar bekoring met Europese argitektuur het haar gelei na die tema van mure, deure en paaie. “Vir my is ‘n deur ‘n metafoor vir ‘n keuse. Elke dag moet ons soveel keuses uitoefen (deur oop- of toemaak). ‘n Mens KIES om vrygewig, goedhartig, blymoedig, vriendelik, konsidirerend of doelgerig te wees. ‘n Sekere keuse stuur ons lewe op ‘n seker lewenspad,” sê sy.
Karien se werk is ryk aan kleur en tekstuur. Die tekstuur van die mure en deure laat dit deurwinerd en oud lyk en voel. In haar Vrystaatse landskappe en stillewes met vrugte skep die ekspressiewe kleurvolle kwashale ‘n tasbare atmosfeer.
Uit “Om die lewe te vier”, ‘n promosie-artikel wat in die Oktober 2006 uitgawe van die tydskrif Tuin Paleis verskyn het.
Karien loves life. Her home and heart is open to friends and those who need her. She likes to spoil visitors and considers making food to be a creative process and an enjoyable way to celebrate the good that life offers.
"Karien is active - she is never bored and listless," says a friend. "There is something in her that will forever stay a child and like a wild girl with a yellow mane she scurries around all day."
Painting is her passion and something she only started practicing later in her life. Her three children were already quite grown up when she studied creative arts at UNISA. For her, painting is more than just drawing pretty pictures. It requires self-discipline and the courage to bare your soul. The shadows in the life of a painter are also looking for expression and recognition on the canvas.
"I want to make art at which my grandchildren can sit and eat porridge'. These words by Paul Cezanne are a daily inspiration to Karien Boonzaaier. She wants to convey a message of life and light - something that will make the observer feel good. Her faith is important to her. The Greek word 'Parakletos' - meaning 'the Holy Ghost as my helper, guide, comforter and advocate' - always appears below her name in her paintings.
Karien and her husband love travelling and her enamourment with European architecture lead her to the theme of walls, doors and roads. "For me, a door is a metaphor for choice. Every day we have to make so many choices (open or close doors). One CHOOSES to be generous, kind-hearted, cheerful, friendly, considerate or goal oriented. A certain choice steers our life onto a certain road of life," she says.
Karien's work is rich in colour and texture. The texture of the walls and doors gives it a weathered and old appearance and feel. In her landscapes of the Free State and still-life paintings of fruit the expressive, colourful brush strokes create a tangible atmosphere.
Translated from a promotional article “Om die lewe te vier” (“To celebrate life”) in the October 2006 issue of the magazine Tuin Paleis (“Garden Palace”)