The starting point for Rombouts' work (drawings: charcoal and chalk on paper) is her direct involvement with the clay soil of the IJsselmeer polders.
Her father was one of the first farmers in eastern Flevoland.
The memory of this landscape plays an important role in her work:
- the power of the vast clay plain
- the width, the space, the light
- the air that touches and draws the earth
- the perspective lines of the furrows
- the movement in the clay soil by ploughing, sowing and harvesting
- the different structures (large, oily clods in the plough front - fine clay granules in the newly sown beet plots)
Landscapes, transparent ground profiles, figures, torsos and portraits undergoing
interact and overlap.
Chalk and charcoal lines and stains, ranging from light grey to deep black, move and crawl within the given context.
Let the light of the paper shine and form organic systems in which natural forces play an important role.
The landscape as a complex whole that does not want to reveal its secrets.
The landscape becomes a self-portrait.