All beauty lies within nature. The inspiration for artist Jenny Derksen lives within the early rise, within the colours, within the endless colours.

As people replaced nature with the asphalt and concrete of grey cities filled with gloomy people, she wants to restore the balance with her own colour. She does this primarily by making figurative sculptures that portray animals. Jenny Derksen wants to lift up cold, bleak spaces with her colourful figures. She creates birds and foxes from polyester and neolith, always with a multitude of extremely lucid and contrasting colours. “My animals need no camouflage, they are safe.” Although she juxtaposes bright colours and paints three to five, and sometimes even seven layers, the sculptures appear peaceful, light and cuddlesome. Like nature, Derksen aspires to balance colours. She aims to spread a positive message with her work. Her animals, from penguins to snakes and cocks, have to exude happiness like nature does. Meanwhile, the two footed primate, man, slowly entered her studio.

When Porsche asked her to design manageable figurines, the first ladies and gentlemen slid from her shaping fingers into her work. Eventually, she began to cautiously work with human figures for her experimental wall objects. Within these works, we once again recognize Derksen’s striking palette, in which she works magic with pigments and mixes apparently perfect colours. Precisely the singularity of each separate colour that she paints layer after layer, continues to fascinate her. No philosophy, no stirrings of the soul or soul stirring motives are involved. To Jenny Derksen art is simply the game of colours combined with the playfulness of imagination.