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Artist Statement:
The realistic painting
technique is a hallmark of my
work. Many of the themes and
subjects of these works deal
with people and their
relationship of their
surroundings to their
identities; landscapes with
reconstructions of the past
and skyscapes, attempting to
catch and shape that which
cannot be captured.
The experience of new and
changed insights and awareness
through elevation above and
distance from everyday
reality, never completely
losing sight of that reality,
stands central in my work.
Peter Heij, March 2007
Lost Lands, a series of
landscapes, 2003/4
This is a series of landscapes
with lost land as the subject.
These works refer to primal
land, the bygone earth, the
early world which has, in
reality, nearly disappeared.
But our former surroundings
were a part of this ancient
world that remains deep in our
collective, primal
subconscious. We seem to
recognize and grasp this
knowledge of our connection
with our origins
instinctively, although they
remain faded and almost
forgotten memories.
I want, with this series, to
recall those subconscious
memories, to bring this lost
land back, reconstruct it.
The sunset in a burning sky in
each of these works asserts
the awareness of and
dramatizes the passage of ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
-Born 1960 in Utrecht,
Netherlands. Lives and works
in Amsterdam, Netherlands
-Education
1982 - 1987 Royal Academy for
Art and Design, Den Bosch.
Specialized in painting
(selection of exhibitions)
-Solo exhibitions
2009(oct)Open Studios
Nieuwmarkt.
2008 Gallery Stam,
Amsterdam.
2008 Gallery Acculade,
Amsterdam IJburg.
2007 Open Studios Nieuwmarkt,
Amsterdam.
2005...
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Artist Galleries:
Gallery Acculade, Amsterdam
IJburg, Netherlands
Gallery Stam, Amsterdam,
Netherlands...
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Artist Reviews:
(selection)
2009 Kunstgids/Artguide
Amsterdam 2009, page 114.
2008 Kunstgids/Artguide
Amsterdam 2008, page 127.
2007 The Uitkrant, Amsterdams
Uitburo; Open Studios
Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam with
pict. 'Gestalten III'.
2007 The William and Mary
Review - The College of
William & Mary (Williamsburg,
Virginia, V.S.)
2005 De Echo, (newspaper
Amsterdam); project
'Figures...
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Collections:
-Private collectors worldwide.
-R.O.C. Amsterdam Zuidoost,
Netherlands.
-Insurance company Zwolsche
Algemeene, Netherlands.
-Municipality of Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
-SBK Amsterdam (Visual Art
Foundation), Netherlands. ...
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Commissions:
(selection)
-2003 Painting with
Gestalten/Figures, a private
commission, Rotterdam,
(Gallery De Opsteker,
Amsterdam) Netherlands.
-1996 Painting titled; 'De
Zwolsche Mens' for
design-agency Keja Donia, for
the collection of the
insurance company Zwolsche
Algemeene, Netherlands.
-1995 Painting with the
building of D'Light in
commission of O'Neill,
Drongen...
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