Sculptor Linda Verkaaik (1956) is fascinated by the idea of dualism. Verkaaik works in both large and small scale. She makes accessible, big installations in public spaces, engages in landscape art, stand-alone sculptures and sculptural medals. Regardless of the medium or size, the reality and duality always shines through. In museum Beelden aan Zee she presents sculptural medals.

During her studies at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Utrecht, and later at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Verkaaik often integrated two worlds into her art: such as culture and nature, power and powerlessness, intelligence and stupidity, above water (life) and under water (death). A medal, with its front and back, is perfectly suited to visualize this duality: image versus shadow image. Verkaaik is not necessarily positive in her dualistic world view. According to the artist, one pole often deceives the other: "betrayal of death on life, betrayal of human to human, animal to animal, human to animal, nature to human, human to nature... betrayal of myself, betrayal by myself. Ego-alterego".

Verkaaik considers the rim of the medal to be essential, because it bounds and connects the poles of duality. The rim brings opposites together by allowing the front and back to flow into each other.

Linda Verkaaik made her first medal in 1985. Later she preferred to make medals in series. Many medals are related to her majestic sculptures and installations placed in a landscape.

Besides duality, another theme in Verkaaik's oeuvre is flowing movement, in dancing, the streaming of water and floating in a vacuum.

Stylistically and materialistically, Linda Verkaaik distinguishes herself by a dynamic, expressionistic style, in which she combines all kinds of special materials, such as metal, steel, copper wire, mosaic, enamel, acrylate and paper. She uses enamel in her bronze medals to create accents. She also creates apertures in the surface to allow light and shadow to do their work.