Helga Renders

Some memories change with time.

As a child, the peacock feathers hanging in my grandmother’s dark hallway unsettled me. Years later, that very memory became the starting point for this painting.

The feathers unfold like a protective canopy above the girl. Reflected in the mirror is the ballroom of a real castle, a place where memory and imagination gently meet.

The Butterfly Room is about finding the courage to look back. Not to remain in the past, but to discover that what once inspired fear can transform. Like a butterfly unfolding its wings and finding the freedom to fly.

Perhaps the past never changes. But the way we see it does.