Description
‘Mnemosyne’ by Kirsten Schaap
Artist: Kirsten Schaap
Title: ‘Mnemosyne’
Medium: Pen and acrylic ink on hot pressed watercolour paper
Dimensions: 7.9″ x 7.9″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2025
About the Artwork:
Mnemosyne, in Greek mythology, was the Titan Goddess of memory and mother of the nine Muses. She also ruled the river Mnemosyne, a counterpart of the river Lethe in Hades, the Realm of the Dead, where dead souls could stop transmigration by drinking from it instead of drinking from Lethe, where they would stop remembering their past lives. – Kirsten Schaap
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Kirsten Schaap (@kirsketchbook) is an illustrator living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her work revolves around introspection, darkness, contrast and raw emotion- fear, loss and decay are recurring themes in her work. She mainly works in black-and-white and her work is drawn by hand using a stippling technique, which enables her to bring depth, texture and layers into her work. She is inspired by nature, mythology and science fiction.