P A R A D E
A new series of sculptures is now evolving. I use several new materials like aluminium or solid marble. Also, I like to get funky with some new colourshades! The sky is the limit. The maritime shapes this year are sculptural and more abstract. I feel incredibly inspired and I can’t wait to show you my newest ships, here on my website or at my studio. Keep you updated, beware of the PARADE….
CASTOR | 22 x 16 x 12 | SOLID TRAVERTINE | 2025
ZITA | 30 x 20 x 12 | SOLID ALUMINIUM | 2025
APOLLO @KRZV DE MAAS
APOLLO | 140 x 35 x 42 CM | SOLID RESIN | 2025
K O L O S S O
In these series of paintings I focus mainly on the size of a ship. The incredible experience of raw steel and volume. The force, and the pure power. How does that make you feel? Romantic? Yes m’ am. ‘Nature’ is big and ‘man’ is small. Now, change ’nature’ for ‘ship.
HEAVY LIFT | 30 x 40 CM | SASJA HAGENS | 2024
BON VOYAGE |230 x 230 CM | ACRYLICPAINT,EMULSION SAND ON CANVAS | SASJA HAGENS 2024
AUTOCARRIER | 20 x 50 CM |SASJA HAGENS | 2024
LADY GREY | 40 x 50 CM | ACRYLICPAINT EMULSION SAND ON PANEL | 2023
DRYDOCK | 40 x 50 CM |ACRYLICPAINT EMULSION SAND ON CANVAS |2024 |
STUDIOPHOTO DECEMBER 2023
RADIANT PINK | 230 x 170 | ACRYLICPAINT EMULSION SAND ON CANVAS | 2023 | PRIVATE COLLECTION ROTTERDAM
RADIANT YELLOW | 170 X 230 CM | ACRYLICPANT EMULSION SAND AND MORE ON CANVAS | 2023
ESPO | EUROPEAN SEA PORT ORGANISATION, BRUXELLES
COMMISSION (summer2023)
ESPO AWARDS (8)The ESPO Award on Social Integration of Ports ESPO BRUXELLES
TITLE: THE COLOURS OF ESPO | 50 x 50 (8) ACRYLICPAINT EMULSION SAND ALUMINIUM METAL COPPERPLATE METALLEAF OSB WOOD |CNC MILLED|2023
“‘The port theme is about adventure, about coming home, about loss, about joy and life energy.’”
TUGS
COMMISSION DAMEN SHIPYARDS 2023
A SENSE OF SHIP
Translucent colorful sculptures. Dynamically shaped. This is characteristic of how I see the world. Colorful and light. With these contemporary maritime shapes, known for anyone because these ships travel the globe. Inspired by these well known forms and shapes I create my own distinguished narrative. A chronicle about departure, hope, loss. The ship as a metaphor for vigour, desire and life.
MATARINO / RESIN MARBLE / 16 x 10 x 18 CM / 2023 /
APOLLO
APOLLO | 44 x 17 x 11 CM | UNIQUE IN SERIES | RESIN BRASS | 2022
RADIANT SERIES
“Now I am especially enchanted by light.”
FAREWELL | 40 x 30 CM | ACRYLICPAINT EMULSION GLITTER ON CANVAS | 2023
YELLOW SHIP | 80 x 100 x 10 CM | ACRYLICPAINT SAND EMULSION STYROFOAM STEEL CABLE ON CANVAS | 2022 | SASJA HAGENS
DELTA WORKS
“I’m also fascinated by the huge size of the Dutch Delta Works and the Zeeland Bridge. Man is small and builds big things in an attempt to stop nature for a while. That gives me a romantic feeling.”
UNBOUNDED (DIPTYCH) | 140 X 340 CM | ACRYLICPAINT SAND EMULSION ON CANVAS | SASJA HAGENS 2014 |
“The painting UNBOUNDED is about the big flood in 1953. The ‘Watersnoodramp’. Dutch engineers had the wonderful idea to take the caissons from the Normandian coast , used as Mulberry harbors by the Allied during WW II - to Holland. They placed these concrete caissons and fixed the hole in the dyke.”
Visit the caissons,check Watersnoodmuseum
REMIX OUR FUTURE HARBOUR
EERSTE PETROLEUMHAVEN | 60 x 60 cm | ACRYLICPAINT SAND EMULSION WOOD CNC MILLED|ALUMINIUM FRAMED | 2021 | SASJA HAGENS X SAAR SNOEK
HARBOURSCAPES 2021
“People sometimes ask me why I’ve spent so much time painting ports – such an obvious theme. But their size and industrial quality light the fire in me. ”
Rotterdam #03 | 40 x 60 cm | Acrylic Paint and emulsion on canvas (aluminium framed)| 2021
Rotterdam #05 | 40 x 40 cm | Acrylic Paint, sand and emulsion on canvas (aluminium framed)| 2021
Rotterdam #02 | 65 x 65 cm | Acrylic Paint and emulsion on canvas (aluminium framed)| 2021
More pieces of the new series here.
KALYPSO-SERIES
“To me, it’s all about color. About rhythm. About seeing what it is, yet letting the abstract value of the painting dominate. It’s not about the picture, it’s about the dynamics of applying the paint. That generates meaning.
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“Kalypso; a fierce anthology of industrial and landscape elements. In my paintings I’m giving my vision of our future landscape. How will our environment develop through influences of science and new technologies?”
ARTIST IMPRESSIONS
HARBOURSCAPES
CRANESHIP | 170 x230 CM |