Sensual

Sensual
Animated Shortfilm
4 Minutes
900 handpainted pictures






Softly, slugs trace their way across wet lips. Snakes glide gently through fingers, while a bear embraces a woman’s body with a loving hug.

Sensual unfolds as an installation that works with animalistic and poetic metaphors to evoke experiences of intimacy and physical closeness during sexual foreplay. Through strong visuals, intimate touch and close physical connection are shown. Slowly, we let our-selves fall into our partner. “Sensual” invites you on a journey along the beautiful, strong, and at the same time vulnerable body of a young woman. We feel skin, warmth, tenderness.

At the core of the installation are around 900 hand-painted watercolors. They not only form the visual foundation of the film but are also presented in accompanying exhibitions as an independent, artistic work in dialogue with the moving image. In addition, I expand the smaller works with large-scale paintings that stand among them, opening pathways into further visual worlds Animals serve as metaphors for the partner’s body. Their physical qualities allow us to experience corporeality in an abstract yet tangible way. Intimacy, which is often difficult to depict, becomes palpable. Slippery and slick, soft and fluffy, sharp and biting. 

As the artist and director of the project Sensual, I have found a way to turn inward and engage with my own emotions. My art allows me to explore emotional themes deeply and to give them a form where words often fall short. Through images , I give this inner world an expressive form and make it accessible to others.







Styleframe Bear
Styleframe Snakes
The Skin: big format painting, painted within the unsivers of Sesnual
Styleframe Starfish
Frensh Kiss: big format painting, painted within the unsivers of Sesnual
Styleframe Jellyfish


Buy a Picture

The complete series consists of 900 pictures. Here you can see a small selection that gives you an impression of how the work develops.

If you are interested in purchasing a piece, please contact me and I will be happy to provide you with the complete catalogue of available works.




Veins | Shot Number: 005 | includes 44 paintings



Landscape | Shot Number: 010 | includes 42 paintings  
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Landscape | Shot Number: 020 | includes 36 paintings



Jellyfish | Shot Number: 030 | includes 119 paintings


Snake | Shot Number: 040 | includes 75 paintings



Bear | Shot Number: 050 | includes 56 paintings



Bugs | Shot Number: 060 | includes 44 paintings



Snails | Shot Number: 070 | includes 57 paintings 



Octopus | Shot Number: 080 | includes 33 paintings


Bugs | Shot Number: 090 | includes 20 paintings


Flying Squirrel | Shot Number: 100 | includes 66 paintings



Tiger | Shot Number: 120 | includes 33 paintings



Morphing | Shot Number: 140 | includes 37 paintings



Morphing | Shot Number: 150 | includes 81 paintings


Starfish | Shot Number: 190 | includes 54 paintings



Eal | Shot Number: 220 | includes 73 paintings



©Tanja Nuijten // Impressum