-- more of my art on:www.heijnsbroek.nl --
Abstract painting
- colorful, Dutch abstract expressionism -
I live and paint in Amsterdam-city on the fourth floor. There I make my abstract paintings since 1989. Intuitive art means to me, I have no image when I start and the picture develops itself in the process of painting. Of course I must be open for and make me aware of everything what comes up and asks for a place in the picture. That is the side of intuitive abstract painting, coming beyond me. And it is the dynamic in the process of painting which helps me a lot in this. On the other hand I have to make visual decisions again and again.
The Dutch light falls every day into the windows of my studio. Beneath lies a wide canal; the water moves with the wind and with the reflections of the drifting clowds in the sky. It makes the light around me very alive. So it comes into my art.
Sea gulls are floating and crying around the windows of my studio.The streaming light is changing and moving every moment. This Dutch light fascinates me, because it is fresh and new every moment, and it makes my eyes breath; it refreshes my soul.
So does also the developping city Amsterdam itself with its growing number of marks of modern times: the many constructions in the city, the highways, the uncountable amount of anonymous tags on the walls, the magical reflecting windowshops. Together they give face to modern times.
Both sources give me a lot of visual food for my art. The painting itself happens on intuition and it speaks in images and visual imagination beyond myself. This is the area where I transcend and opens myself for new views which come to me. Painting lies in the twilight between the known and the unknown.
Fons Heijnsbroek
(painting at the right: gouache nr. 6.618, made in spring 2008)
(more images of my art on: www.heijnsbroek.nl)
