My work is an ode to nature. In the quiet works on paper – prints of collected flowers and branches – I look to subtly portray the depth of a spiritual meaning in nature. Every leaf, every branch I find, carries a story for me, a silent thought that I bring to life through my hands and eyes.

The elements of earth, such as clay and soil, form the base of my sculptures. They are a direct homage to the primal source of the biosphere. It is earth that nourishes us and connect us. This theme runs as an invisible thread throughout my work. In everything I create, I search for the connection between the large and the small, between the tangible and the invisible. A constant search for the soul of nature that reflects a universal time – and culture transcending spiritual inner human landscape.

De Wit's bronze belongs, by instinct, to rooms with history. In the iconic building Metz & Co her three works are placed not within the 6th or 7th floor rooms but along the building's staircases — spanning the ground, 4th and 5th floor — thresholds rather than rooms, classical in their own material logic. The choice follows the work rather than the floor plan: bronze that carries the fossil of a leaf or a stem finds its counterpart in stone that has carried a century of footsteps.

Artist talk by Herma de Wit

On Saturday 19th September at MADART, first floor, 10 AM
NIO House, Leidsestraat 32
GLUE Design route
RSVP Herma de Wit

Photo 1: Abstract #04 - Photo 2: Euphorbia #02 - Photo 3: Object #04