has a special bond with well-known artists from Belgium and the Netherlands, but also with artists from other countries. This group is continually expanding with painters, sculptors, designers, who all have one main thing in common: top quality. L. van Eijnatte Image as a sign, as an intermediator between beholder and nature. With geometrical shapes as starting point, L. van Eijnatte comes to architectural dreams and signs (not scientifical or mathematical), seeking something elementary whereby he allows himself to be guided by simplicity and stillness, in an almost spiritual experience. The choice of hardstone is essential for defining the skin of the stone. The chisels leave a graphic pattern, succeeded by polished shapes. A number of works are rendered more powerful by the element of water, in the shape of collected rainwater in bowls or dishes.
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Hans Grootswagers likes to work with themes because this offers the possibility to explore a chosen theme and so to investigate the different facets of emotions. The approach of a theme from another point of view, elaborating and drawing out new insights and laying down these insights into a new sculpture, is a new challenge each and every time.
In 2000, the sculpture 'going' was created, the first of a series of individual figures which emanate quiet, peace and serenity. In a later stage he developed the idea to change these solo figures into double figures. In his double figures the inner romantic comes boldly to the foreground: feelings of attachment, caring, intimacy. Given form through molding together and inter-weaving, and through rounded, curved shapes, sculptures are created which have great intensity.
In the following years, both themes have been developed further. In solo statues he plays with ideas of rest and calm, the patiently waiting for the things which are to come. This comes to the foreground in well-balanced sculpures with a timeless character. With these sculptures he wants to let the viewer realize that peace and quiet are a beneficial thing, they offer a counterweight to our hectic world.
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Hans Grootswagers:
Our gallery is proud to say that Hans Grootwagers will, as from today, entrust his new work to our gallery.
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E. Kierkels
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L. Veerman
L. Veerman studied at the Academy of Art and Sculpture in Utrecht. The sphere is the most pleasing shape for him. It suggests a natural source of inspiration for his sculpting art. For him, this is the most eloquent means of bringing expression to an overpowering feeling of nature within matter. Next there comes a moment where several themes come together. The peelshape, coming forth from a ball seems also capable of representing the wings of a bird, even to suggest oncoming waves. After a while the images change. The shape of a ball remained but he used it in a different way.
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J. Gaymans
J. Gaymans followed his training at the St. Joost Academy at Breda and the Academy for imaging and building arts at Tilsburg. Originally he was an architect, but he only felt in his element when he decided to only be a sculptor. In his world one thing is connected to the other. His sculptures are a symbiosis of simplicity and refinement. On the one hand only scetchilly indicated figurative elements, but on the other hand a precise finishing: polished and with a rusty patina, with colour and sometimes with silver.
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J.P van Opheusden
J.P. van Opheusden was born in 1941 and after working as a teacher of imaging arts for 15 years, he dedicated himself completely to painting and sculpture, and... with success. His exhibitions were in the Netherlands, but also in Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco, Tunesia and even in America. He has carried out a number of important commissions. His canvasses are drenched with emotion... His love for life, for elegance and style, for feminine shapes, literally jumps off the canvas and takes possession of the viewer. In this way his work becomes more than just art: it is a lesson in life.
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A. Frigge
Figurative artist A. Frigge is open to working with the help of his intuition. It seems as if he plays music with his pencil on paper, with his pen on the etching plate. Standing before the paper or the canvas there is only the boundary of the edges and the innocence of the white, the presence of the stilled light. When etching and painting with water colours, Frigge is most in his element. Etched lines have a totally different character than other drawn lines, precisely with etching the tension is especially in the empty spaces; every place which is engraved on the etching plate ensures that the void next to it receives its own shape; he calls it a feast of surprises when an etching comes from the press and the intensity of the shapes has become beautiful.
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Alain Petre
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R. Demarteau
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O. Langerhorst
His sculptures are made out of wood, because he is convinced that trees, the providers of wood, have played an important roll in the development of mankind. From ancient times there has been a strong connection between man and trees. Wood helps him to work with his emotions, and to cut out conscious ideas as much as possible. He is not displeased when a sculpture that is completed contains "something strange" or "something surprising". There's no need for conformity. Plain beautiful shapes are not enough. This is perfectly in line with the selfwilled characteristics of wood.
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G. Konings
Gerard Konings followed the graphics of shape and form course at the Academy St. Joost, of Breda. He makes countrymaps of his feelings. It is the traces of the movements of his hand, which we read as emotions. His work, often shy, sometimes scratchy. A containing of anger. And at the same time restlessness and an urge to break out. The "works on paper" are the most direct documents of this life. These don't need definition. In his sculptural erections he certainly brings definition in place of theory: itself, in the shape of a peaceful death mask, grown together with nature.
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Guus Koenraads:
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M. Reehorst
In many places M. Reehorst seeks objects which fascinate her. Often they are old, coming from cultures which barely exist nowadays. Whilst working on them, each painting immediately delivers an idea for the next one. The compositons are built up from fragments of architecture in landscapes: materials of wood, metal or textile, spaces in which the objects seem to float. One can see movement, objects slide in front of and behind each other. They give the impression of a still life. One looks inside in an open space. Often she paints doors which open up to a new space. People are not visible in the space. This makes her paintings silent.
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S. Woudwijk
Artist S. Woudwijk from Rijen has multiple talents. He paints, sculpts and takes photographs. And he philosophizes. The favorite theme in his work is eternity. Time passes into eternity. The image remains however, motionless; that is why in his work, he worked out a wheel in order to guide viewers of his art. With the wheel he wants to show the passage of time. With that idea, he has the shape of the wheel cast in bronze. The idea behind it was to come to a deepening of his train of thought. This course of action has led to a series of fascinating works, as the painter has step by step taken over the direction. The roll of photography has been brought back to that of source of inspiration for the painter.
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T. Bluekens
Objective reality exists, only not from the subject (and also not from the object). Man colours the things and moreover (or rather thanks to?) everything is in movement. Objective reality can only be the matter itself. The matter existing in a structure. The matter looked at from the matter is already subject. Everything is, and everything becomes. With objectivity we understand: without prejudice. We can only try to be as objective as possible.
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