Tag Archive: oil on canvas


Peninsula

I finished this piece last week. Slightly different than my other work. Less detailed, brighter colours and with less depth. The blue at the bottom for instance, has the same brightness, the same tonality, as the blue at the top. That makes the painting more flat.

In contradiction to that, there seems to be a sort of horizon at 2/3 of the painting. But the white at the top…? Sky? (but why does it stops then?). And are we looking down on something, or are we just facing a pile of colourful blocks? …..

Hopefully I have the time to frame it and use it for the exhibition that starts at the 17th of april in Harlingen (beautiful town at the coast in the north of the Netherlands). It’s still wet (oilpaint), so I have to wait.

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100 x 70 cm, oil on canvas

Oilpainting nr10

Oil on canvas, 110 x90 cm

schilderij21

Oil on canvas, 454 x 380 cm

nachtwacht

Oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm

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Oilpainting

Oilpainting, 160 x 80 cm

Stoneflower

Per Kirkeby, Danish painter or hero?

Well, I don’t believe in heroes. However, Per is getting close. We both work with the same themes. And we both are real “painters’.

During my study at the academy in Utrecht (HKU) I saw a marvellous exhibition in Amsterdam. And a few years later in Denmark, in the Louisiana Museum. Per really knocked me of my feet. Can you cry,  just by watching a few paintings? Yes, you can (Obama will agree on this).

My teachers told me, that Kirkeby is a “difficult painter, really a painter for painters”. I don’t know if they are right or wrong. I don’t know how it is “Not to be a painter”.

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This week I visited the exhibition of ‘The late Rembrandt”, at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Beautiful exhibition. For me the most impressive painting was this little painting of “Baadende vrouw” (bathing woman).

His fellow artists thought it was just a sketch, an unfinished painting.

The loose  brushstrokes of the white “dress” together with the delicate touch and de fine use of his glacis-strokes (thin layers of paint).

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An oilpainting a made a few years ago.

100 x 90 cm