Symona Colina - Visual Art
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How we see has often more importance than What we see.
Symona Colina (Ridderkerk, 1954)
creates work that explores the relationship between visual form and inner perception.
Beginning from a minimal gesture — a point, a line — her practice unfolds like a melody: marks that expand according to an internal rhythm rather than a fixed plan.
Pencil, graphite and oil become instruments of organic growth; the image takes shape like a living organism, carried by an comprehensive wind that Symona Colina recognises as her primary creative impulse.
For Symona Colina, perspective is as much an inner vision as a spatial device.
A meeting point where length, height, and depth converge with memory, sensation, and imagination.
Colour and line enter a continuous dialogue: planes of tone suggest movement while light functions as a temporal pulse that animates the composition.
The work privileges how perception happens over what is perceived; the viewer’s way of seeing is woven into the meaning of each piece.
Every canvas or sheet becomes a field where visual and psychological dimensions resonate, a threshold between the world within and the world outside.
Composition becomes movement, light becomes rhythm, and the act of looking becomes an intimate, personal event.
Often how we see matters more than what we see — the way we perceive is part of who we are.
Her work begins with a single, deliberate mark that grows organically into complex forms, much like a musical phrase developing into a rhapsody.
Symona Colina describes this method as “composing with rainbow‑light,” weaving lines and tones into a visual melody.
Each piece is built through patient layering and attentive modulation, where restraint and intensity coexist.
Colour and line enter a continuous dialogue: planes of tone suggest movement while light functions as a temporal pulse that animates the composition.
The work privileges how perception happens over what is perceived; the viewer’s way of seeing is woven into the meaning of each piece.
Every canvas or sheet becomes a field where visual and psychological dimensions resonate, a threshold between the world within and the world outside.
Composition becomes movement, light becomes rhythm, and the act of looking becomes an intimate, personal event.
Let the rhythm of the works guide you: follow the mark, feel the light, sense the perspective. Colina’s painting is a song to be seen — an invitation to rediscover the personal way we look at the world.
Perspective as feeling.
Colour, line, and light choreograph memory and movement. See not just what is painted but how you arrive there.
Through layered planes of tone and a rhythmic use of light, Symona Colina's canvases map the interplay between spatial depth and inner memory.
Rather than presenting fixed subjects, the works invite viewers to inhabit a perceptual process: to feel movement in composition, to sense time in light, and to discover meaning in the personal act of seeing.
Symona Colina Oil on Canvas Visual Art
Vullisbelts - Oil on Canvas 95x80cm 1993
Waterworld - Oil on Canvas 120x100cm 1994
Vortex - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 1989
Vreemde Vogels - Oil on Canvas 120x140cm 1994
Voorgrond - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2000
Vissen - Oil on Canvas 50x70cm 1986
Vanilla - Oil on Canvas 90x120cm 1988
U.G.O. (Unidentified Glowing Object) - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2007
Tulpen - Oil on Canvas 90x120cm 1988
Vogels - Oil on Canvas 60x60cm 2004
Spekkies - Oil on Canvas 100x80 cm 1990
Splash - Oil on Canvas 50x60 cm 2011
Trasformation - Oil on Canvas 100x90cm 2021
Storm - Oil on Canvas 100x90 cm 2021
T Dansant - Oil on Canvas 110x80 cm 1989
The Breathing - Oil on Canvas 100x90 cm 2019
The Turning of the Tide - Oil on Canvas 80x90 cm 2024
The Wailing - Oil on Canvas 70x80 cm 2018
Sorbet - Oil on Canvas 100x100 cm 1997
The Malström - Oil on Canvas 80x90 cm 2023
Thunder Ball - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2017
Time Weaver - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2010
Slakkenhuis
Skywalker - Oil on Canvas 50x60 cm 2011
Seasigh - Oil on Canvas 80x110 cm 2009
Silence - Oil on Canvas 100x100 cm 2017
Sea Horses - Oil on Canvas 60x60 cm 2010
Scudo - Oil on Canvas 120x120 cm 2006
Sirenetta - Oil on Canvas 50x60 cm 2011
Seeds - Oil on Canvas 80x90 cm 2018
Schipper - Oil on Canvas 120x90 cm 1990
Schiuma - Oil on Canvas 30x50 cm 2010
Parapluutjes - Oil on Canvas 105x110cm 1993
Oogwenk - Oil on Canvas 100x120 cm 2011
Persuasion - Oil on Canvas 60x60cm 2010
Open Water - Oil on Canvas 105x100 cm 2012
Pi - Oil on Canvas 140x140cm 1995
Pentagon - Oil on Canvas 110x80cm 2008
Piuma - Oil on Canvas 70x80 cm 2013
Propeller - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 1995
Que Cumber - Oil on Canvas 100x90cm 1994
Rotoda - Oil on Canvas Ø 80cm 1995
Krakelingen - Oil on Canvas 80x70cm 2018
November Rain - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2024
Lapijn - Oil on Canvas 60x70cm 1987
Lynx - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 2013
Meduse - Oil on Canvas 115x115cm 2001
Innerbirds - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2001
Jumpers - Oil on Canvas 80x90cm 2023
Layers - Oil on Canvas 100x90cm 2021
Muizen - Oil on Canvas 50x100cm 1988
Northern Wind - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2019
Horrid - Oil on Canvas 110x110cm 200
Kobol - Oil on Canvas 90x90cm 1998
N'Uovo - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 2002
Schilderij - Oil on Canvas 80x105 cm 1992
Mare Mosso - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 2007
Ei Land - Oil on Canvas 130x100cm 1988
Forza Nove - Oil on Canvas 110x80cm 2008
Ego - Oil on Canvas 85x100cm 1987
Luchtkasteel - Oil on Canvas 110x85cm 1990
Mercedes - Oil on Canvas 70x90cm 2013
Gebroken Bol - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 1999
Featherlight - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2023
Haan - Oil on Canvas 60x70cm 1987
Eyeland - Oil on Canvas 120x120 cm
Fiera - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 2004
Fire - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 1998
Glas in Lood - Oil on Canvas 120x100cm 1989
LocoMotiv - Oil on Canvas 100x150cm 1991
Full Moon - Oil on Canvas
Insight - Oil on Canvas 90x90cm 2000
Glitter - Oil on Canvas 90x105cm 1988
Fairytales - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2019
Ins Blaue Hinein - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 1991
Jugglers - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2017
Fortuna - Oil on Canvas 70x80cm 2013
Entwinned - Oil on Canvas 70x80 cm 2015
Ecumes de mère - Oil on Canvas 80x100 cm
E - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 1988
Dubbele Bol - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 1997
Blauwe Bol - Oil on Canvas 120x120 cm 1994
Dodecaedron - Oil on Canvas 110x100cm 1997
Cinders - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2020
Clockwork - Oil on Canvas 100x100 cm 200
Dreamer - Oil on Canvas 105x115cm 1990
Close Harmoney - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2018
A Close Encounter - Oil on Canvas 85x95cm 2023
Boek van Poes - Oil on Canvas 105x100 cm 1989
Cold - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 1992
Cats - Oil on Canvas 85x70 cm 1991
Alba - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 2016
Colina - Oil on Canvas 30x50 cm 1980
Deep Waters - Oil on Canvas 80x90cm 2022
Connexion - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2020
Dolphins - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 201
A'Mare - Oil on Canvas 80x90 cm 2009
Doors of Perception - Oil on Canvas 80x90cm 2025
A Tre - Oil on Canvas 120x120 cm 2006
Blue - Oil on Canvas 100x100 cm 1996
Danny - Oil on Canvas 80x80cm 2000
Vision - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 2014
Foam - Oil on Canvas 30x40cm 2010
Nimpha - Oil on Canvas 30x40cm 2010
One Step - Oil on Canvas
Ashes - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 2014
Skyscrapers - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 2014
The Wall - Oil on Canvas 95x90cm 2026
Vullisbelts - Oil on Canvas 95x80cm 1993
Waterworld - Oil on Canvas 120x100cm 1994
Vortex - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 1989
Vreemde Vogels - Oil on Canvas 120x140cm 1994
Voorgrond - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2000
Vissen - Oil on Canvas 50x70cm 1986
Vanilla - Oil on Canvas 90x120cm 1988
U.G.O. (Unidentified Glowing Object) - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2007
Tulpen - Oil on Canvas 90x120cm 1988
Vogels - Oil on Canvas 60x60cm 2004
Spekkies - Oil on Canvas 100x80 cm 1990
Splash - Oil on Canvas 50x60 cm 2011
Trasformation - Oil on Canvas 100x90cm 2021
Storm - Oil on Canvas 100x90 cm 2021
T Dansant - Oil on Canvas 110x80 cm 1989
The Breathing - Oil on Canvas 100x90 cm 2019
The Turning of the Tide - Oil on Canvas 80x90 cm 2024
The Wailing - Oil on Canvas 70x80 cm 2018
Sorbet - Oil on Canvas 100x100 cm 1997
The Malström - Oil on Canvas 80x90 cm 2023
Thunder Ball - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2017
Time Weaver - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2010
Slakkenhuis
Skywalker - Oil on Canvas 50x60 cm 2011
Seasigh - Oil on Canvas 80x110 cm 2009
Silence - Oil on Canvas 100x100 cm 2017
Sea Horses - Oil on Canvas 60x60 cm 2010
Scudo - Oil on Canvas 120x120 cm 2006
Sirenetta - Oil on Canvas 50x60 cm 2011
Seeds - Oil on Canvas 80x90 cm 2018
Schipper - Oil on Canvas 120x90 cm 1990
Schiuma - Oil on Canvas 30x50 cm 2010
Parapluutjes - Oil on Canvas 105x110cm 1993
Oogwenk - Oil on Canvas 100x120 cm 2011
Persuasion - Oil on Canvas 60x60cm 2010
Open Water - Oil on Canvas 105x100 cm 2012
Pi - Oil on Canvas 140x140cm 1995
Pentagon - Oil on Canvas 110x80cm 2008
Piuma - Oil on Canvas 70x80 cm 2013
Propeller - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 1995
Que Cumber - Oil on Canvas 100x90cm 1994
Rotoda - Oil on Canvas Ø 80cm 1995
Krakelingen - Oil on Canvas 80x70cm 2018
November Rain - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2024
Lapijn - Oil on Canvas 60x70cm 1987
Lynx - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 2013
Meduse - Oil on Canvas 115x115cm 2001
Innerbirds - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2001
Jumpers - Oil on Canvas 80x90cm 2023
Layers - Oil on Canvas 100x90cm 2021
Muizen - Oil on Canvas 50x100cm 1988
Northern Wind - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2019
Horrid - Oil on Canvas 110x110cm 200
Kobol - Oil on Canvas 90x90cm 1998
N'Uovo - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 2002
Schilderij - Oil on Canvas 80x105 cm 1992
Mare Mosso - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 2007
Ei Land - Oil on Canvas 130x100cm 1988
Forza Nove - Oil on Canvas 110x80cm 2008
Ego - Oil on Canvas 85x100cm 1987
Luchtkasteel - Oil on Canvas 110x85cm 1990
Mercedes - Oil on Canvas 70x90cm 2013
Gebroken Bol - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 1999
Featherlight - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2023
Haan - Oil on Canvas 60x70cm 1987
Eyeland - Oil on Canvas 120x120 cm
Fiera - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 2004
Fire - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 1998
Glas in Lood - Oil on Canvas 120x100cm 1989
LocoMotiv - Oil on Canvas 100x150cm 1991
Full Moon - Oil on Canvas
Insight - Oil on Canvas 90x90cm 2000
Glitter - Oil on Canvas 90x105cm 1988
Fairytales - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2019
Ins Blaue Hinein - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 1991
Jugglers - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 2017
Fortuna - Oil on Canvas 70x80cm 2013
Entwinned - Oil on Canvas 70x80 cm 2015
Ecumes de mère - Oil on Canvas 80x100 cm
E - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 1988
Dubbele Bol - Oil on Canvas 120x120cm 1997
Blauwe Bol - Oil on Canvas 120x120 cm 1994
Dodecaedron - Oil on Canvas 110x100cm 1997
Cinders - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2020
Clockwork - Oil on Canvas 100x100 cm 200
Dreamer - Oil on Canvas 105x115cm 1990
Close Harmoney - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2018
A Close Encounter - Oil on Canvas 85x95cm 2023
Boek van Poes - Oil on Canvas 105x100 cm 1989
Cold - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 1992
Cats - Oil on Canvas 85x70 cm 1991
Alba - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 2016
Colina - Oil on Canvas 30x50 cm 1980
Deep Waters - Oil on Canvas 80x90cm 2022
Connexion - Oil on Canvas 90x100cm 2020
Dolphins - Oil on Canvas 100x100cm 201
A'Mare - Oil on Canvas 80x90 cm 2009
Doors of Perception - Oil on Canvas 80x90cm 2025
A Tre - Oil on Canvas 120x120 cm 2006
Blue - Oil on Canvas 100x100 cm 1996
Danny - Oil on Canvas 80x80cm 2000
Vision - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 2014
Foam - Oil on Canvas 30x40cm 2010
Nimpha - Oil on Canvas 30x40cm 2010
One Step - Oil on Canvas
Ashes - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 2014
Skyscrapers - Oil on Canvas 80x100cm 2014
The Wall - Oil on Canvas 95x90cm 2026
JUMPERS
Glazed windows…
On the hard-boiled edges of a pink horizon …
An otherworldly sound shattered
the crystalline eggshells resting
on the edges of a thin skyline performing
a perfect magic circle…
The confinement of an unborn world…
A teardrop breaking into infinite pieces…
My moment comes on butterfly wings…
An eye blink for a fluttering kiss…
A whisper for a moment…
Against all odds…
I wish…
I yearn…
I leap…
fading into a teardrop…
breaking into infinite pieces…
Breaking through eggshells seems so easy…
Oil on Canvas 80×90 cm
INS BLAÜE HINEIN
Ins blaüe hinein.
Mann kann davon reden.
Ins blaüe hinein…
Oil on Canvas 120×120 cm
FORZA NOVE
Fuori al largo
circondati dal blu.
Dove noi voliamo col vento
cavalcando da marinai.
Tenendo la vela in alto
la bandiera dei nostri sogni.
L’equilibrio sullo specchio marino.
Avanti sempre avanti…
Non c’è spazio, non c’è tempo
soltanto…
This painting found its origin after a rough very long ride at sea,
The beauty of the storm…
Oil on Canvas 80×110 cm
WAILING
The wailing never ends…
The sound is too thin to be heard,
it’s weaving the fog into the winds…
Covering the bright sight of eternal youth
…with misty molds of age…
The wailing never ends…
Oil on Canvas 70×80 cm
A TRE
Height width depth.
A painting.
A space.
A cube has six fields.
Regular squares.
The canvas is a regular square.
To make it more clear that the one in the distance
comes very near in being the one at the front,
I gave them the same size.
I suppose that leaves five fields.
One on the left, one on the right,
One above, one under,
One in the distance
Four edges.
Height width depth.
A painting.
A space.
Oil on Canvas 120×120 cm
STORM
A raging storm…
rolling thunder
in the nearby distance
shatters silence
Oil on Canvas 100×90 cm
LYNX
(MISCIO)
Miscio…Miscio…
whispers the wind …
Just a name…
You see.
Oil on Canvas 80×100
MEDUSE
The flowers of the sea.
Like butterflies.
Sleepy beauties.
Dreamy lives…
Their music is so sweet.
Dancing their shameless beauty.
The Ocean blues.
Salty water comes to my eyes.
I cry out loud…
“Touché”.
Oil on Canvas 120×120 cm
ENTWINNED
Perspective a game of lines…
Perspective a game of colours and shades…
As twins entwined…
Words are like wings on the wind…
Playing around in a game of lines…
In a game of colours and shades…
Reaching out for a different horizon.
Circumscribe a different horrizon
Oil on Canvas 80×70 cm
PI
Once upon a time
I had a dream.
A dream of,
PI.
I stood in front of a row of dishes.
Don’t like to admit it,
I really hate washing dishes…
And then out of the sink,
came,
PI
Washing and cleaning
this endless row of dishes.
Unfortunately,
it was just a dream.
PI…
Still dreaming of you
when I stand in front of an
endless row of dishes.
PI…
roots out of two
wishes…
Oil on Canvas 150×150 cm
U.G.O
Unidentified Glowing Object
Hope is an answer in our desperate desire
to save our souls.
Oil on Canvas 100×100 cm
PROPELLER
The painting of the propeller, lying in half a bowl
catches the eye in the movement of
“back and forward” focusing on the center.
Oil on Canvas 120×120 cm
VISION
Visions in a world.
Visions of a world.
Vision A world to see.
To see a world.
Reflections in our eyes, reflected in our eyes.
Oil on Canvas 80×100 cm
SKYSCRAPERS
Visions in a world.
Visions of a world.
Dust in the wind reflects the clouds driving by…
Oil on Canvas 80×100 cm
SILENCE
I found you…
in the silence.
In the eye of a hurricane.
Oil on Canvas 100×100 cm
CINDERS
Cinders,
In the end
It comes down to cinders.
Time holds its breath
As a spark rises like a phoenix
From the ashes as a falling star.
In the end…
When it comes down to cinders.
Oil on Canvas 100×90 cm
FIERA
A place where people come together.
An event where people float together.
On land, at sea and in the sky.
In summertime and wintertime.
Having a good time.
Once upon a time.
All kinds of colors are on the water, land and sea.
All kinds of people look like a rainbow to me
Oil on Canvas 110×110 cm
DODECAEDRON
To create this painting
I used the variability of the dodecahedron.
The canvas is the front-side of the cube, and the back-side.
Possible and not possible are entwined at the front-side of the cube.
Possible and not possible solve in transparency.
Oil on Canvas 100×110 cm
OPEN WATER
Is Transparent all around
Three Dimensions
Height, Width and Depth.
Transparency is where I think and I see.
Transparency is to be.
Oil on Canvas 120×120 cm
KRAKELING
In the Netherlands,
a particular type of
sweet ;kringle is well known
under the Dutch name krakeling.
The shape of the krakeling / kringle
has given the basic space-form to this painting.
Kringle is a Scandinavian pastry,
a Nordic variety of pretzel.
Pretzels were introduced by Roman Catholic monks
in the 13° century in Denmark,
and from there they spread throughout Scandinavia
ad evolved into several kinds of sweet,
salty or filled pastries,
all in the shape of kringle.
Kringle,
the word originates from the Old Norse kringla,
meaning ring or circle.
The shape of the kringle has given name to a similarly
entangled feature found in some proteins,
the so-called Kringle domain.
Oil on Canvas 80×70 cm
MARE MOSSO
There is the wind,
whispering, caressing, seducing.
Soft breezes, mighty storms.
I feel the wind
crushing, caressing, capturing…
I see the wind on the sea,
in the clouds covering the sky.
One with the wind, ship and sea.
Man is made from mussel and bones.
A world moving on and on.
From one end to an other.
Into and from a deep blue sky,
into and from a deep blue sea.
The wind is whispering stories.
The wind with all its might.
The wind is telling me dreams.
And I believe them all.
Oil on Canvas 120×120 cm
NORTHERN WIND
Rouses and stirs…
rises the fires…
buring desire…
Oil on Canvas 90×100
PARAPLUUTJES
There are rainy days.
There are sunny days.
There are these days…
Where would I be without my umbrella?
Oil on Canvas 110 x105 cm
EYELAND
A world to see
To see a world
Oil on Canvas 120×120 cm
SCUDO
A shield to protect,
.. Shield to wonder,
………….. To admire,
………… Dream,
………… Desire,
………… whish,
………… Carry,
………. Show,
……… hold,
……. Find,
……. Use,
…… See,
….. …..
…. ….
… …
.. ..
. .
. .
. .
.
Oil on Canvas 120×120 cm
DUBBELE BOL
The vision of one sphere…
Inside and outside…
Not all in a possible perspective…
Nonetheless visible…
Vision… a matter of perspective.
Oil on Canvas 120×120 cm
ASHES
Visions in a world.
Visions of a world.
A glance at
a world to see.
To see a world
on fire.
Oil on Canvas 80×100 cm
THE WALL
The wall faces the other side.
Stands tall in between.
It’s just a thin layer,
thick as a lifespan.
As a timeless veil clinging to a breath.
Oil on Canvas 90×95 cm
