Welcome to the realm of CultMustArt > A meticulously crafted world of its own. Here, analog collages built from vintage imagery break through the ordinary and create new surreal realities. Each handmade piece invites you to step into a universe where imagination, memory, and rebellion collide.
At CultMustArt, forgotten fragments are reborn into new, layered worlds. Cutting and reshaping pieces with surgical precision from vintage photo books and magazines to build analog collages that feel timeless, surreal and entirely unique.
Drawing from a love for monochrome photography and subtle color accents, each artwork carries the unmistakable CultMustArt signature: visual tension, storytelling, and crafted depth.
This isn’t digital art, No pixels. Each piece is slow-made, obsessive, raw, handmade analog collage — a world stitched together by hand.
Whoever enters Paulette in ’t Veld’s work (and entering truly is the right word here: the viewer’s gaze is literally drawn into the work) is taken on in a visual rollercoaster where the most impossible architectures are created to the rhythm of breakneck perspectives and composition lines. The atmosphere is dark, even somewhat oppressive, but as a spectator you never have the uncomfortable feeling of being trapped: there is always a visual opening to be found. The key to the labyrinth lies in the well-considered light/ dark equilibriums that tolerate the occasional discreet colour accent. In technical perfection, of course. Rarely have we seen collages where scissors and scalpel were handled with such precision.
With an unusual sense of visual rhyme, Paulette in ’t Veld searches and continues to find the exact image fragment to form the correct echo. The results are multiple symmetries within works that may seem chaotic at first glance, but are anything but that. The various rotation axes, perspectives, vanishing points, and vistas originate in an organic way, with an internal logic held only by the artist. It makes her work completely unique, highly diverse, and yet very identifiable. It feels like... Escher On Speed.
Motivation of the jury For the Jury of the Arty Award for collage art, edition Brussels, Paulette in ‘t Veld was immediately and unanimously the leading candidate. Indeed, her work has a soul and is incredibly strong in technical terms. As a spectator you recognise what you see, yet it is so different that it is difficult to name it. Her piece is a dream world throughout which we can stroll. The care with which the work has been carried out is truly impressive. So many elements placed along and upon one another, connecting as a mosaic into a brilliant whole.
Whoever says CultMustArt, says Paulette in ‘t Veld.
CultMustArt was founded by Paulette in ‘t Veld in 2008. CultMustArt represents the playing field, a free space, and the factory from which all the artist’s creative processes emerge. In short, CultMustArt is the embodiment of Paulette in ‘t Veld’s artistic world. Since 2023, she has been operating under the name: CultMustArt.
