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Douwe Tiemensma
"Tout est autobiografique, meme l'imaginaire", Claude Simon.
All the things you draw or paint is about yourself. It's your way of looking, your way of moving, your inside, your heartbeat etc that becomes visible in your handwriting, in your compositions, your use of colours.
And of course: Painting is about composition, structure, colours. About contrasts:
opaque & transparant, warmth & cold, emptiness & fulness etc.
It's not the subject that matters, but the way it is represented.
In the eighties and nineties I painted watercolours. Next years I worked for a long time inside, in the studio, painting stillifes. Nowadays I make my drawings outside again, in small sizes and take them inside to enlarge them or to work them over.
A lot of painters have influenced me, some by the way they worked, others more directly by the drawings or paintings they've made. Some are wellknown, some are not.
I very appreciate the works of Otto de Kat for example, or the drawings and paintings of Albert Baertsoen,
Further the Canadian painters J.P. Lemieux and Tom Thomson. It's a pity you can hardly find them in the galleries here in Europe.
The past ten years I've seen drawings and prints of Avigdor Arikha: I appreciate the strong blacks & whites in his works, the astonishing ease...
"While walking I think painting".
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