Patty Van Sprang

Background

Van Sprang was born in Suriname and lived in Amsterdam for 10 years, before migrating to Australia.She describes herself as " a cultural melting pot Australian".

Her father was a well known photo journalist and political activist, her mother a dancer, potter and artist, and her grandmother, who is 101 years old, attended the Rotterdam Academy of Fine art and technology during the early 1920's, and lived the full Bohemian lifestyle of the era, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Williem de Koning .

'I am certain that the ability for artistic expression is genetic. It can lay dormant and crawl out of the depths at any given time, like a genetic predisposition for disease.Governed by environment, nurture and ultimately self control"

Van Sprang studied photography,digital arts, ceramics, interior design and fashion design, and property developing,and has only recently embraced painting into her curriculum of creative persuits.

She classes herself as an ' emerging raw artist" , emerging at the other end of the time warp .Her foray into the "self centered world of art" started in Ocober 2008 and over the past months, her body of works has grown enormously.

'I can't seem to stop. It is as if every week i need a new form of expression, and I will work on a project without sleep for days.In the past 4 months I have embraced painting,something I have never experimented with before, and I am totally in love with pastels!" One week I concentrate on photography, the next on Satart, then back to the acrylics, charcoal sketches, pastels.I think I am going mad."

Van Sprang is a self made Millionaire.

" The idea of living in an attic, on the bones of my ass, smoking copious amounts of weed and knocking on too many closed doors wasn't realy appealing to me.Although I always wanted to be a graffiti artist, bombing walls with political slogans. Hell yeah."

I decided to live my life the other way around, persuing something that was financially rewarding, which would make me wealthy whilst i was alive, and still relatively young. Australia is "the lucky country". You can do anything, and as long as you are persistant, you can achieve what ever you want"'

It has been done, so here I am.The creative part has begun.Watch your walls...