The artists of art-abstract introduced briefly

Hilly van Eerten; modern graphic art: the monotype.

* In recent years Van Eerten almost exclusively concentrates on monotypes or monoprints. The modern urban world figures heavily in her work, and cityscapes of New York, Amsterdam and Rotterdam are easily recognizable. As models she uses photographs, with which she produces her monoprints using montage techniques. By constructing layers of colour images she evokes a portrait of the modern city. Her art is as complex as the city and presents modern pictorial labyrinths of an abstract city.
Jean Homacher

Gerben van der Meer; urban impressionism in oil.

* Living in Amsterdam Van der Meer increasingly looks for and finds new motives in the urban setting. He deliberately construes his art around solid squares and forms. His colour tones however often are soft and subdued. The modern Dutch tradition of abstract art is easily recognizable in his work. More specifically, one could say that there is a definite association with the soft impressionism of the Haagse School. The atmosphere of these painters is to be found in the fysicality of his modern abstract images.

Fons Heijnsbroek; colourful modern art in the abstract.

* For Heijnsbroek daily reality is not taken for granted, is no area of easy recognition, within which events are perceivable. Life and the world have things to offer that often elude us, but sometimes can intuitively be grasped. For Fons modern abstract art is the means par excellence to reconnoitre this terrain. His primary concern is an intuitive image proposal, using an abstract pictorial language. This shows both in the colourful forms and lines and clear colour scheme of his large paintings and in his transparent gouaches on paper. Our intuitions on life and world are best to be explored by means of an open form of modern abstract art. For abstract art permits free forms and lines with a definite visual suggestion, a suggestion to look at life and the world in a different way. And this is exactly what the paintings and gouaches of Fons aim to do, evolving through a process of spontaneous association. So these pictorial proposals are an invitation to see life and the world differently.

Ben Vollers; power and subtlety.

* Ben Vollers uses his brush both for painting and drawing. His powerful colour squares mingle with thinly and spontaneously drawn lines. Together they form a strong and fysical. The result is a definitely Nordic and forceful atmosphere. Vollers uses acryl and oil, on both linen and paper. Antiquity is the basis for his inspiration, be it images or stories. But the city of Amsterdam is also a source for his art, which is firmly rooted in traditional expressionism. Ben also produces ceramics in simple forms.

Els Bannenberg; small abstract paintings.

* Concerning her subjects she is most often struck by a simple and concentrated image based on everyday scenes: a small enclosed town garden, a view across plain fens lined with thin trees set out against the sky, a recently stripped building around the corner on the verge of demolition. These images generate whole series of small paintings, painted in acryl in a modern pictorial language of sturdy forms and planes. She favours acrylic paint because she likes to work fast and to put layer upon layer. Recently Els Bannenberg strikes a softer note and her palette has turned more subdued. Thus her newest paintings are intimate with some robust planes intermingled with subtle shifts in tone. Photographs are often the starting point for a new series of paintings, though sometimes her photographs have independent lives. She has an eye for geometrical situations.

Vincent van Oss; abstract art in modern forms.

* Vincent's art is both definitely modern and strictly abstract. He plays with pure form, with colours as a starting point. Vincent cuts out templates with the power of association. He composes the painting by inserting these templates via montage techniques and then painting around them. As a result his art is no abstraction of reality, but a whole new reality, a modern, visual reality with a life of it's own.

Harry Versteegen; stillness in the abstract.

* To Harry an abstract painting is in essence a flatness, a visual area with nevertheless solid forms and shapes that exist in festive minimality. Harry considers abstract art as a domain of freedom, a freedom of pictorial language. His inspiration lies in nature. The colour tones of his paintings are soft and subdued, without any gloss. He sees a painting as an entity of stillness and simplicity, but with a clear presence and power.

Wim Zorn; schilderijen.

* Abstract painter Wim Zorn means for the discovery of individual freedom. He creates an autonomous world of materials, form and colour, in which spatial experiences are combined with physical presence. The mostly used bamboo causes a play of light and shadow and changes colour and shape. Everything hinges on an ultimate combination of simplicity, balance, visual tension, and the creation of space and quiet.