Rugen Sunlight was made while the artist was living in Berlin in 2019 and references Caspar David Friedrich's Chalk Cliffs of Rugen (1818). For many years, Schoorel's most frequent subjects have been interior and portraits, usually those of close friends and associates. During the period in Berlin, the artist expanded her repertoire into the realm of landscapes and gardens, cultivated environments halfway between wilderness and civilization.
"I mostly paint from what I have seen or experienced. In my work, I research the human mind's ability to perceive and understand the visual world. In a landscape, the plants, the water, the sky, simultaneously appear and dissolve into the canvas. The biodiversity in our current time is slowly and almost invisibly disappearing. Similarly, only after taking time to look and experience the painting can one notice the subtle and deeper layers that are visible", Schoorel says.