In her work, Elise Klinkert (1967) examines her inextricable connection with nature on the one hand, and can lose herself with love and care in depicting the landscape, nature and the elements. On the other hand, she investigates how this all-overwhelming nature seems to be lost at the hands of man. Her paintings arise from a combination of different aspects: engagement, conversations, source research, a childhood memory or fragments of a dream. The people and animals that Elise paints are time travelers who try to evoke a feeling, a romantic longing for a better world, a life in connection and harmony, with each other and the universe. Her work asks questions about our society and the economic system that has grown out of all proportion, the loss of our interconnectedness, it asks questions about valuable and worthless. Elise wants to create a greater awareness around the vulnerability and preciousness of the surrounding environment.