Katouchka Pool is an art historian and she lectures and paints in the art of icon paintings and the techniques of the old master painters. She arranges courses and workshops in painting with tempera according to authentic techniques, with traditional or contemporary subjects. She is especially interested in the origin and cohesion of art, culture, spirituality, religion, and philosophy. Her tempera paintings are characterised by a subdued, spiritual, and mystical visual language that invites the viewer to meditate and contemplate. Her poems also lend themselves to this. Paintings and poems form a unity that tell an old, symbolic mystery. www.atelierkatouchkapool.nl