Fruit Intermezzo 30-10 by Rob van Hoek
size: 50cm x 60cm (w x h)
media: Oil Pastel
price: £750; $1090;
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Professional artist since 1992
I have taken part in the following exhibitions:
For the last ten years I've made all my paintings with oil-pastels. I developed a special technique enabling me to work with this greasy material in several layers. Each layer that is completed I carefully heat with an electric paint stripper. After cooling down the next layers adds very well. In this way I can build up my paintings getting rich, velvet like colours and a lovely texture.
The only drawback is the physical effort it takes to put all that oil-pastel on the board. Because I feared I was developing a kind of RSI I have taken up painting with oil on canvas to be able to change between materials. At first I didn’t like it: I was so adjusted to work with the oil pastels I had to unlearn this habit. But now I am really happy painting with oil and I believe they are of the same quality as my pastels.
Nearly all my paintings are landscapes. They are not actual landscapes, I make them up. Playing with form, composition and symbolic landscape icons ( such as trees, flowers and farm lines), I seek to create a painting that is not boring, because it is too well-known, but one that keeps asking to be looked at it, as it's a very personal view of our world.
Painting with oil I increasingly aim at simple compositions and translucent atmospheric colours, hoping to create timeless images of peaceful beauty.
Autobiographical Note:
Born: 21-01-1957
1994 Interart Heeswijk-Dinther solo 1995 Jan van Munster Den Haag solo Art Options Wijk bij Duurstede solo Hofman en Partners Alphen aan de Rijn group 1996 Holland Art Fair Den Haag group Hofman en Partners Alphen aan de Rijn group Art Options Wijk bij Duurstede group 1997 Anton Gidding Den Haag solo Art Options Wijk bij Duurstede group 1998 Smelik en Stokking Den Haag group 1999 Smelik en Stokking Den Haag group Blackheath Gallery London multi Kunstuitleen West Friesland Hoorn group 2000 Blackheath Gallery London multi Smelik en Stokking Den Haag solo Het Oude Raadhuis Warmond solo Peter Leen Breukelen
group Art Options Wijk bij Duurstede solo Blackheath Gallery London group Brauckmann/Le cheval Blanc Heemstede solo 2001 De Praktijk Wissenkerke solo Peter Leen Breukelen group Blackheath Gallery London multi
My paintings are represented in collections in the Netherlands (both private and state supported) Great Britain, Belgium and Japan.
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