My starting points here were the sculptures of Italian artists during the Renaissance, like Giambologna, Michelangelo and Bernini. And link them to my previous research of Gaia and Pythia.
And: the creation of the world (Darwin): “On the origin of species”.
Acrylic paint and siberian chalk on paper, 100 x 70 cm.
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Chalk, acrylic and oil on paper
100 x 70 cm
oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm
Small painting/drawing. Acrylic, chalk and oil on paper. 50 x 65 cm
Oil on canvas, 160 x 80 cm
I am Dutch. Try to master the English language. Read a lot. Margaret Atwood for instance, with the Madadam Trilogy and A Handmaid Tale.
Run into new words:
Yore, of Yore: A long time ago.
This is me. My drawings and paintings. Refering to a time, where forms weren’t that specific. The origin of….
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70 x 100 cm. Acrylic on paper, siberian chalk on paper and oilpaint on paper.
I am using different backgrounds now (acrylic and siberain chalk) and try to make a combination between this background in paint and the drawings I’ve made lately. And on top, again paint, in acrylic or oil. Layer over layer, over layer. Chalk over paint, paint over chalk).
“DRAWTINGS”, I call them.
Or: “DARWINgs”
Finished this one yesterday.
Darwin, Darwin, Darwin.
80 x 120 cm. Oil on canvas.
The Darwin project exists of two major themes. “The origin of species….” is one of them.
Here a detail of a new painting I’m working on. Only a small detail, approximately 15 by 30 cm. The whole painting is 80 x 120 cm.
Still al lot of work has to be done. Only worked on it three sessions. I’ll keep you posted!
Making art is a matter of doing and reflect on what you’ve done. For 90 percent I know what I am doing. But it’s all about that 10 percent. And when the “not knowing part” becomes to big, it’s totally out of control. And the result will be a very bad painting.
On the other hand, when I control everything I do for a full 100 percent, I’m not able to surprise myself (and “the audience”). And the painting will only be interesting for I short moment. You really have to take your time, when in front of my work. Get to know the painting. Explore it.
On the origin of species X13
And the series is growing and growing. Probably in october, I will arrange a special exhibition in my studio, to show all the “Origin”paintings (eight are finished now).
I thought the title was well choosen. On the other hand; are my latest paintings really about the creation of the world, about life? Or is the theme more about a sort of putrefying and ephemerality? Just before everything dies, vanishes…… To capture that moment?
And does that matter? Or can the outcome, the paintings, be the same? Despite the different angles.
In the right corner below are three yellow organic forms.The top one is still bright. But the one at the bottom is already vanishing. Dying?
70 x 90 cm. Oil on canvas.
