The human body. Hands, faces. The game of light. Ans captures it with her colour pencils. The passion – of a mouth. The sensuality – of a shoulder. The tenderness – of a neck. With colour pencils. Sharpening and filing. For hours, days. Until seven to eight centimetres of the pencil points are uncovered. Colours. Layer after layer applied. In different shades of black and brown. Until it forms a spectrum, a slow changing of colours. With her work ‘No more hiding’ Ans finally dares to fully expose herself. She no longer hides herself behind masks. She completely shows her real self. The way she truly is. As a woman, as a mother, as a human being. Together with all her ideas and feelings. With the same dedication and passion Ans expresses with her colour pencils the beauty of the local nature, the Curaçao mondi, in the smalles detail. For her however, the true work of art is not her drawing, but rather the object of nature itself. She refers to a statement by the British author Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) ‘Nature is the art of God’.