"I had the pleasure of sitting down in the studio with Lieve Hakkers, recipient of the prestigious Royal Award for Free Painting in 2025. Layered and mysterious, her work draws you in with its melancholic intensity. We talk about method, paint, and the body. We talk about her large-scale work, Circle Jerk - a bold painting in six panels that came with a sexual content warning! Lieve is a painter’s painter. Hours of study, research, experimentation and solitude, mix with her bold and original colour palette to create her distinct visual language."

The utterly enchanting, dark little painting she chose for this month’s Resurrauction, is titled Metallica II. By bidding here you support the artist and Darling Killers directly.