Final days of In Full Colour at Root Gallery

Only two days remain to visit In Full Colour at Root Gallery. The contemporary art exhibition, featuring paintings by Vera Klaus and Karen van de Vliet alongside sculptures by guest artist Sina Steiner, is open on Friday 4 September and concludes with a finissage on Saturday 5 September.

From 11:00 on Saturday, Karen van de Vliet and Sina Steiner will be present at the gallery. Visitors are invited to join us for coffee and croissants, meet the artists and see the exhibition one final time.

Colour, material and movement

In Full Colour brings together three distinct artistic practices in which colour is inseparable from material and process. Across painting and sculpture, Vera Klaus, Karen van de Vliet and Sina Steiner each allow their work to develop through experimentation. Rather than illustrating a preconceived image, they respond to the behaviour of paint, translucent materials and clay.

The result is an exhibition that changes as you move through it. Colours overlap, surfaces react to the light and sculptural forms shift according to the position from which they are viewed.

Karen van de Vliet: colour, translucency and imperfection

Karen van de Vliet creates tactile abstract paintings from translucent materials and carefully composed layers of colour. She developed the works from her fascination with things that are visually beautiful yet slightly imperfect or unexpected: a stain, a puddle or autumn leaves gathered in water.

In her Translucency series, colour appears suspended within the material. Light moves through and across the surface, revealing new details and subtle variations throughout the day. The paintings have a strong physical presence, but retain a sense of transparency and openness.

Karen’s work received an exceptional response at Enter Art Fair in Copenhagen. Every work by her that we brought to the international art fair was sold. Further paintings from the series remain on view in In Full Colour, making these final days a rare opportunity to experience several works together.

Translucent IX by Karen van de Vliet

€3,500.00

By Karen van de Vliet
120 × 90 cm, 2026
Mixed acrylic paint on cotton, framed

In Translucent IX, Karen van de Vliet explores the unexpected beauty of a stain: an irregular form that seems accidental yet is carefully composed. Her fascination with such shapes began in childhood, through encounters with ordinary things that appeared both beautiful and slightly off, such as autumn leaves gathered in a puddle.

Translucent materials allow colours and traces from underlying layers to remain visible. Pale blue, black and off-white are interrupted by narrow lines and vivid accents of red, yellow and fluorescent pink. Some elements appear to flow downwards, while thicker areas of paint sit prominently on the surface. The result is a tactile abstract painting that shifts between movement and stillness, precision and chance.

Delivery within the Netherlands and Belgium is arranged in consultation, either in person or securely shipped.

Vera Klaus: a new openness in painting

Colour also plays a central role in the work of Vera Klaus, although her approach is more gestural and intuitive. Klaus combines paint with lines, fragments, marks and a wide range of materials. Her compositions emerge gradually, without being directed towards a single focal point.

The recent paintings in her Dreams and Hope series mark a new development in her practice. Compared with her earlier, densely layered works, these compositions feel more open. Vivid colours, spontaneous gestures and delicate details are given space to exist independently while remaining connected across the canvas.

The series made a strong international debut at Enter Art Fair. Visitors responded enthusiastically to this new direction, and works by Klaus found new homes in Denmark. Following the fair, her paintings can now be seen at Root Gallery once more in dialogue with the work of Van de Vliet and Steiner.

Dreams and Hope I by Vera Klaus

€3,900.00

By Vera Klaus
180 × 120 cm, 2026
Mixed media on cotton, framed

Dreams and Hope marks a new direction in the work of Vera Klaus. Across a soft pink ground, recurring arched forms appear like mountains, shelters or elements from an imagined landscape. Deep blue, vivid red, yellow and earthy green are layered through translucent washes, drawn contours and tactile marks.

While Klaus’s earlier paintings were often led by spontaneous gestures, this work introduces a more deliberate visual language. The repeated forms gather, overlap and disperse across the canvas, creating a rhythm that moves between drawing and painting, structure and intuition.
Personal delivery and installation within the Netherlands and Belgium are included with this work.

Sina Steiner: unfired clay in a state of becoming

Guest artist Sina Steiner approaches sculpture as an open-ended conversation with clay. She works directly with the material, without sketches or a predetermined final form. Her hands respond to the clay until the sculpture gradually shifts from becoming into being.

The works are not fired. Instead, they dry slowly over several weeks, allowing time, gravity and the changing condition of the material to remain part of the process. Their raw surfaces retain small traces of touch and movement.

Although made from clay, Steiner’s sculptures can appear almost weightless. Curving forms extend into the surrounding space, changing as the viewer moves around them. Within In Full Colour, their reflective and vivid surfaces form a sculptural counterpoint to the layered paintings of Klaus and Van de Vliet.

Final opportunity to visit In Full Colour

After a particularly successful Enter Art Fair in Copenhagen, the attention now returns to the gallery and the final weekend of In Full Colour. Several works have already been acquired, and the exhibition will only remain on view for two more days.

Visit the gallery on Friday afternoon or join us for the finissage on Saturday morning. Karen van de Vliet and Sina Steiner will be present from 11:00, with coffee and croissants waiting.