Edie Pijpers Lets Paintbrushes and Imaginations Fly
Making art comes naturally to Edie Pijpers, a 35-year-old painter and musician from Holland whose work can best be described as “whimsical.”
“It’s just kind of what I do,” she said one recent morning over tea in the sunny Clinton Hill apartment she shares with her boyfriend, a writer. “One day, years ago, I drew a kid [holding] on a balloon and said, ‘oh, that looks nice.’ Then people responded to it.”
The visual of flying away on a balloon “represents freedom for me,” she said. “I always knew I wanted to have the lifestyle of an artist, the freedom to own my own time. I’d done music for a long time, and drawing and painting began more toward my mid-20s.”