Untiteld
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 200 cm
2012
Detail from Untitled
Untiteld
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 180 cm
2012
Detail from Untitled
Near oilfelds
Acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
2011
Drought #02
Acrylic on canvas
140 x 100 cm
2011
Facade of the great mosque
Acrylic on canvas
130 x 100 cm
2011
Wounded minaret
Acrylic on canvas
155 x 125 cm
2010
Behind curtian
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 90 cm
2010
Untiteld
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 150 cm
2009
Exhibition overview
TENT Rotterdam
2011
Exhibition overview
TENT Rotterdam
2011
These works are abstract, filling the whole canvas. They are compositions, built up from layers, movements and patterns without fixed point of focus. The image seems to expand indefinitely by continuing out of the frame. In this work it is more about the paint, the process, a thought and the associations evoked by the image by which I want to convey my feelings and memories to the viewing public. The technique I use here consists of many layers of paint hatching. I paint or draw small crosses on top of or next to each other without fixed direction. The images of the old layers connect with the new ones, thus creating a new image. It is a continuous process of reworking and adapting the several layers. The first ones disappear almost completely under several new layers of paint.
Photography by Jan Ariaans