10 remarkable artworks under €1.500
Discovering meaningful art doesn’t always require a big budget. At Root Gallery, we believe in supporting both new collectors and experienced art lovers by offering works that are both accessible and distinctive. In this selection, we highlight ten remarkable pieces currently available for under €1.500. Spanning paintings, photography, and sculptural wall works.
Each piece is made by one of the artists we represent, many of whom are also part of prestigious art fairs and international collections. Whether you're looking to start your collection, add something new, or find a memorable gift, these works reflect high-quality contemporary art at a welcoming price point.
Lisette Schumacher
Lisette's practice draws from her fascination with architecture, light, and modernist heritage. Working with layers of acrylic on plexiglass, her pieces often refer to specific places and the atmospheres they hold.
By Lisette Schumacher
30 × 40 × 5 cm, 2025
Mixed media
From the series Sunrise at Griffith
Lisette Schumacher is known for her translations of modernist architecture into layered, spatial works. Using transparent boxes as her canvas, she builds up layers of acrylic paint to create a distinctive play of light, colour, and depth.
Following her earlier series View on Sunset, inspired by the colours and lines of mid-century modern architecture in Los Angeles, she now presents her latest body of work: Sunrise at Griffith. This new series focuses on the early morning light surrounding the iconic Griffith Observatory. Painted in exceptionally soft tones – delicate gradients of pale yellow, lavender, and dusty pink – the works evoke the quiet atmosphere of a city just beginning to wake.
As always, the plexiglass enhances the transparency and layering in her work, turning each piece into a moment suspended in time and space. With Sunrise at Griffith, Lisette invites viewers to pause and take in the ephemeral beauty of a new day unfolding.
By Lisette Schumacher
25 x 20 x 10 cm, 2024
Mixed Media
From the series Echoing Reflections
Discover Echoing Reflections, the latest sculptural series by artist Lisette Schumacher. This innovative collection pushes the boundaries of contemporary art, showcasing her mastery of new materials and experimental painting techniques. Each wall sculpture features two distinct images - one on each side - crafted with contrasting colours. When illuminated from above, these sculptures cast dynamic, mesmerising light patterns on surrounding walls, creating a striking visual experience. Perfect for modern interiors, these pieces expand on her acclaimed Spatial Reflection series.
Inspired by endless reflections of sunlight on glass and water, Lisette created Trailing Reflections during her 2022 residency in Los Angeles. While visiting the iconic Stahl House, a mid-century modern masterpiece designed by Buck Stahl and Pierre Koenig, she was captivated by its serene beauty and architectural brilliance. The interplay of sunlight and pool water reflected in the home's glass facades became the core inspiration for this series.
Lisette’s carefully curated colour palette - drawn from the local rocks, succulents, interiors, and the pool - infuses each sculpture with the essence of Los Angeles. Her work pays homage to the Stahl House, a celebrated symbol of modern architecture.
Vera Klaus
Vera is a visual artist who explores the painting medium using pencil, ink, marker, and paint to reach a state of happiness and joy that can be directly translated to the viewer.
By Vera Klaus
80 × 60 cm, 2024
Mixed Media on unprepared cotton
Vera Klaus creates vibrant and dynamic compositions using diverse materials, including spray paint, acrylic, and chalk. Inspired by music, she channels its flow to evoke joy and positive emotions, seamlessly translating her happiness into her art. Through evocative titles, she enhances the uplifting energy of her works, inviting viewers to share in her inspiration. Everyday moments - like sunlight on your skin, blooming fields, or warm encounters - fuel her creativity, grounding her art in the beauty of the present. Each painting becomes a tangible expression of these fleeting yet profound experiences, radiating a sense of connection and vitality.
By Vera Klaus
80 × 60 cm, 2025
Mixed Media on canvas, framed
Despite its title, Ozean by Vera Klaus is anything but a traditional seascape. Instead of blues and greys, the canvas pulses with warm tones of orange, deep purple, and soft touches of white. These colours move across the surface like waves of emotion, layered, intuitive, and full of tension.
The work reflects Vera’s characteristic approach: textured, energetic, and guided by process. Each mark is both a response and an offering, revealing glimpses of what lies beneath without ever fully settling into clarity. Ozean captures a sense of movement and depth, not of water, but of thought and feeling. It’s a painting that continues to shift long after you’ve looked away.
Donald Schenkel
Donald is known for his carefully built-up abstract works that balance depth, contrast, and light. His paintings often seem minimal at first glance but reveal complexity on closer inspection.
By Donald Schenkel
57 x 32 cm, 2023
Oil paint on paper with walnut frame
Opposite to the expanse of lightness, there is the depth expressed by shadows. The series Archaic Shadows is grounded in this depth, found in gradients where lighter colours dissolve into darkening twilights. For Donald, the book ‘In Praise of Shadows’ points out the beauty of what we would consider darkness, and that befits the sensibility of these artworks. Shadows linger on the edge of the unknown, mystical and dark.The works part of this series sparked his attention to the object, the artefact and the archaic. This sensation of the ancient and otherworldly fits Donald’s idea of a silent wonder well. Yet, it contains a potency to be further explored.
Sophie de Vos
Sophie’s work often focuses on the human body, time, and vulnerability. Her photographic practice is deeply material, with image that invites closer inspection.
By Sophie de Vos
40 x 30 cm, ed. 2/5, 2025
Hahnemuhle, framed in black, museumglass
From the series Fragments of Clarity
The word ‘reflecting’ carries dual meanings; it can refer to an actual reflection — seeing an image mirrored in a glossy surface like glass — or it can describe the process of deep, thoughtful contemplation.
This photographic series intertwines both interpretations, exploring the intersection between the literal and metaphorical aspects of reflection. In this series, Sophie incorporates glass as a physical and conceptual layer over her subjects, manipulating its positioning to create dynamic visual distortions. By alternating and playing with these layers, she raises profound questions about perception: When we look at something, are we truly seeing it as it is, or are we viewing it through the complex prism of our own experiences, biases, and emotions? Sophie challenges the viewer to consider the nature of clarity itself, suggesting that true understanding may be filtered and refracted by the lenses through which we observe the world.
Through this blending of visual and philosophical reflection, the series becomes not just a study of surfaces and subjects, but a deeper inquiry into the limits of perception and understanding.
Jan Theun van Rees
Jan Theun van Rees is an artist working in photography. His practice explores how space is perceived, constructed, and transformed through light and image. With a background in architectural photography, he gradually moved away from documentation and into a more personal and intuitive exploration of spatial experience.
By Jan Theun van Rees
70 x 37 cm, 2024
310 gr. acid-free photo rag paper on dibond, dark wenge veneer frame with UV70 museum glass
Edition 1 / 8
Jan Theun van Rees holds a life-long fascination for spatial representation on a flat picture plane. This has manifested to his specialisation in photographing (interior-) spaces. He gravitates to spaces that fascinate him, for example, when light plays an unexpected game in a small corner behind a door. His gaze at actual spaces is influenced by his studio work while afterwards the constructed spaces always appear to have their origin in previous spatial experiences. This studio and on-site interaction are inspirational and lead to many new insights and creative opportunities. From 2018 onwards, Jan Theun started constructing his own spaces, created just for the photograph; an intuitive and time intensive process. When he looks through his camera and experiences a space never seen before, he takes the photograph.
Quinda Verheul
Quinda creates - among many other different works - sculptural wall pieces that reflect her fascination with nature, movement, and material. Her works are tactile and serene, often inspired by landscape or topography.
By Quinda Verheul
60 × 30, 2024
Rose mirror and mixed concrete
This piece from Islands In The Sky captures the essence of open landscapes, drawing color inspiration from the ochres and pinks of the Moroccan desert and mountains. The warm, earthy hues echo the vivid tones found in these rugged terrains, where the sun-bleached sands and weathered stones radiate life. Being in these vast, untamed spaces gives my mind room to wander, where thoughts drift like clouds across the horizon. The organic shapes and soft colors reflect moments spent outdoors, where I feel most connected to the earth and my own instincts, exposed yet entirely at peace. These works are a celebration of nature’s grounding warmth and the profound clarity it offers..
By Quinda Verheul
50 x 30, 2024
Blue coloured mirror and concrete
From the series Celestial Mountains
Inspired by her journey to Kyrgyzstan, and her experience of the enigmatic landscapes, Quinda Verheul unveils a poetic odyssey through Kok-Ayryk; named after the 3883 metres mountain pass in the Tian Shan mountains. Memories of day and night are combined in pink and blue mirrors, with the concrete lines becoming silhouettes of the mountainous terrain, forming a ballet of reflections that can only be experienced when viewing the work in real life. Concrete edges embody the struggle against the mountain's stoic surface, a testament to the complexities of nature, and the challenging journey in the thin air.
Kok-Ayryk embodies her journey through the mountains; a crisp road tracing a wild river, where clouds converge and drizzle adorns reflections. Landslides and the endless stream of rocks that cover the path form fascinating landscapes, with red and pink stones taking centre stage. As the series unfolds, clouds part, revealing a cerulean sky. The mirrors turn into a mountainous backdrop, capturing the red mountains and glaciers. As the sun sets, the sky darkens, captured in the deep blue of night.
Karen van de Vliet
Karen's work is bold, layered, and often expressive. Using acrylic, water and many other materials, she builds intuitive compositions that balance spontaneity with control.
By Karen van de Vliet
45 x 37 cm, 2023
Mixed Acrylic paint on cotton, framed
Moving away from line and figurative art, Karen van de Vliet developed a new approach to her work that is focused on embracing an imperfect beauty. Working with the concept of a stain, Karen was able to go back to the base, to the essence, which continues to be at the core of her practice. She is intrigued by shapes that have arisen on the weathered, chipped, broken, planed and dented surfaces. In these weathered parts Karen finds the essence of true beauty. Taking inspiration from these findings, she creates wondrous abstract pieces that contemplate imperfection. Acrylic paint, water and differing other materials are intuitively applied - often to unstretched cotton - giving free rein to expression.
All works are available for immediate purchase through our website. We offer free delivery within the Netherlands and Belgium. International shipping can be arranged upon request.
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