While Kiki Lamers gained international recognition for her realistic portraits, her recent works have hardly anything in common and completely differ in texture, motifs and colour. Lamers first works were all based on photographs, mainly showing herself and later on portraits of children. The close-ups of faces were painted in a characteristically grey-blue slightly blurry palette. Recently she turned from the thitherto figurative mode to a more abstract and material based work. Colours and texture reminiscent of a landscape. The opaque and highly pastose paint application shapes the irregular surface. Next to dark earth tones one can see shimmering bronze and warm colours.