Linda Biemans, born on August 25, 1958, has for the second time turned her passion into her profession. Trained as a ballet pedagogue at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, she spent a quarter of a century teaching at various institutions and satellite locations, and ran her own successful ballet school for twenty years. Since 1994, she has been developing her skills in the visual arts—initially alongside ballet, but in recent years as a second career.
Although the final form of her sculptures bears no visual resemblance to rock or stone blocks, the original material still shimmers through—the sparkle of the mineral, the erosive effects of time, the reflections and fragmentation shaped by the forces of the earth.
Linda Biemans works in a creative hub and studio in Goor, but she frequently spends time in Italian centers for stone carving, in Pietrasanta and Carrara. In that sense, her sculptures are products of two worlds—both physically and psychologically—an oeuvre that symbolizes both sun and rain, a reflection of the combination of lightness and gravity. Her work can thus be seen as the outcome of a literal and metaphorical struggle with life itself: with its smooth and delicate sides on the one hand, and its darker, wearied traces on the other. It is about polishing the roughness, bringing order to chaos—in other words, rising after a fall.
The characteristics of her sculptures: lightness, often so thin that the stone becomes as transparent as glass, fluid forms, the suspension of gravity, the will to survive—with in nearly every piece the contrast between smooth and rough, delicate and massive.
The oeuvre of Linda Biemans is therefore a tribute to life itself—luminous monuments of our time, created in the awareness that there will always be shadows.
