Colours in eMotion

is a place where art, dreams, healing, and awareness come together.

Through paintings, writings, and inner observations, I explore what it means to be human — through feeling, movement, loss, silence, and growth.

My name is Annette Groen.

Who am I? What moves me?
These are questions I have asked myself since childhood.

Born with a physical disability, I learned early in life to live through observation and inner strength.
I found safety in silence, alone in my room, where I could express my feelings on paper.

Writing, drawing, painting, working with beads, wood, glass, or enamel —
everything became a way of speaking without words.

As a young adult, I would spend days looking at my paintings, trying to understand how I was feeling.
My subconscious spoke in colour.

I called that process “mopping” —
an inner movement of observing, feeling, and slowly understanding.
By translating my own work, I learned to laugh, cry, and recognize who I was — and still am.

When my children were young, I found joy in sharing creativity:
teaching, building stage sets, creating exhibitions, and painting walls with castles, fairies, or horses — whatever the children wished for.

For me, creativity was never just about making something.
It was about connection, imagination, and giving space to emotion.

The year all my children left home at the same time became a period of profound letting go.
Widow, Empty Nest, and Grandmother together formed the word WAY.

A word that carries both absence and movement within it.

In a short time, everything shifted:
what had once defined me fell away,
and something quieter, wider, began to unfold.

Becoming a grandmother felt like an arrival and a farewell —
a gentle release of my own youth,
and the beginning of something timeless within me.

I started writing again to create space in my mind and heart.
Slowly, the urge to paint returned as well.

The silence and peace I experience now inspire me every day.

My paintings emerge intuitively and in layers.
They move between emotion, symbolism, nature, and inner experience.

Sometimes they speak softly.
Sometimes confrontationally.
But always honestly.

Colours in eMotion reflects that inner world —
through colour, movement, and awareness.