| 2019 | |

Mijn inspiratiebron

is stromend water en wat daarmee samenhangt. Maar de magie van haar eeuwige,  tijdloze ritme en beweging werd uiteindelijk hoofdthema. De abstracte beeldvorming die daaruit voortvloeit moet adem bevatten, de toeschouwer een gevoel van ruimte en vrijheid geven. Ik werk met olieverf op doek, en met gouache of grafiek op papier.

Een schilderij ontstaat zonder vooropgezet plan. Meestal bestaat het uit meerdere bewegingen van streken en lijnen – schrapen, opnieuw lijnen trekken – drogen en weer over bestaande verflagen heen. Een soms eindeloos lijkend proces dat – als het lukt - geleidelijk een associatie met ritme en beweging ontvouwt.

 In mijn werk op papier probeer ik in een paar lijnen de essentie van wat me voor ogen staat weer te geven.  Dat vraagt veel papier, een grote prullenbak, `Ausdauer’, en een scherpe blik.

En: wachten tot dat ene blad eruit springt…

 

 

 

My sources of inspiration

are water movements and their surrounding life. The magic of water’s everlasting rhythm and movement has become my main theme. The abstract result should be able to breathe, to give the onlooker a sense of space and freedom. I work in oils on canvas or in gouache and graphics on paper.

My paintings develop without a pre-concept plan. They are built up in movements of strokes and lines – scraped away, covered with new ones –dried and partly worked on afresh. A seemingly endless process which gradually – if luck would have it – unfolds an association with rhythm and movement.

Work on paper is different: I try to evoke the essence of what should be expressed ‘in one go’ as it were. It demands a lot of paper, a large bin, perseverance, and a sharp eye.
And: patience until one sheet catches the attention …

November 2015

 

No Title | 2017 | 80 x 90 cm | Oils on canvas

February 2017 | 2017 | 30 x 40 cm | Oils on canvas

Wetlands 1 | 2015 | 90 x 80 cm | Oils on canvas

February 2018 | 2018 | 110 x 80 cm | Oils on canvas

No Title | 2018 | 90 x 80 xm | Oils on canvas

Winter 2019 | 2019 | 80 x 100 cm | olils on canvas

Spring | 2019 | 120 x 95 cm | oils on canvas

Wetlands | 2019 | 45 x 50 cm | Oils en oilbar on canvas

Beach by night | 2018 | 80 x 90 cm | ink andf acrylic on bpard

Lightness | 2018 | 30 x 40 cm | oils, gesso on canvas

Misty landscape | 2018 | 30 x 40 cm | Oils on canvas

Water movements 3 | 2013 | 30 x 23,5 cm | oils on canvas

No Title | 2017 | 65 x 74,5 cm | Etching in cardboard

No Title | 2017 | 65 x 74,5 cm | Etching in cardboard

No title | 2018 | 38 x 44,5 cm | Etching in cardboard

Water Movements 5 | 2016 | 38 x 44,5 cm | ink, gesso on paper on card board

Movements 1 | 2015 | 65 x 74 cm | ink and marker on paper

Traces | 2018 | 50 x 60 cm | Silk screen over monotype

Harvest from Terschelling 2018 (2) | 2018 | 50 x 85 cm | ink on Japanese paper on Paper (Somerset)

Harvest from Terschelling 2018 (4) | 2018 | 50 x 60 cm | ink, acrylic, marker on Japanese paper on paper

Signs in Sand | 2019 | 50 x 85 cm | Screen print on callograph on paper

No Title | 2017 | 50 x 60 cm | pencil , ink and marker

Wetlands 2 | 2017 | 50 x 60 cm | Gouache & ink

From the series Secret Writings (2) | 2019 | 120 x 95 cm | screenprint on paper

From the series Secret Writings (3) | 2019 | 60 x 70 cm | inks on paper

From the series Secret Writings (4) | 2019 | 90 x 80 cm | screen print on ink on paper

From the series Secret Writings (5) | 2019 | 50 x 85 cm | screen print on paper

No title | 2015 | 80 x 90 cm | screen print on paper

No title | 2015 | 80 x 90 cm | screen print on paper

Amsterdam State Academy (1982-1986)

Lives and works in Leusden and in Den Bosch, The Netherlands.
Telephone +31 (0)33 4940679
E-mail willemijnvanasbeck@xs4all.nl

Exhibitions | a selection

Galerie Quintessens, Utrecht. 6 Solo's

Galerie Kadans, The Hague. Solo

Galerie De Ploegh, Soest / Amersfoort. Group shows of prints

Galerie 91, The Hague. Solo with ceramists Wied&Diederik Heyning

Muzeul National d'Arta, Chisinau, Moldova. Solo

International Biennale Centrul Constantin Brancusi, group exhibition, Chisinau, Moldova

Grafisch Atelier den Bosch, Group show of prints `Uitvergroot'

Westcott Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK. Group show

Stroomhuis, Neerijnen. Group show

Kruithuis, 's-Hertogenbosch. Group show of prints `Graphos'

Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery, Morvah, Cornwall, UK. With Anthea Richards

Cotroceni National Museum Bucharest, Romania. Selection: Int. Biennale Chisinau, Moldova

K26 Gallery, Oss. Group show of prints

Galerie Absoluut, Amersfoort. Group show `Artists' Books'

Galerie BMB, group show, Amsterdam

St. Pieterskerk, Leiden, Drukkers in de Marge

Grafisch Atelier Den Bosch, Exhibition selected prints /calendar 2017

World Art Delft, , group show

Museum Kruijsenhuis, Oirschot, `Jan Radersma Plus', group show

KuuB Gallery, Utrecht, duo show with work by the late Willem Hussem

Galerie 17, Signatuur, duo expo, Middelbeers

Kruisruimte Eindhoven, with Reina de Weijer, Hadewijch Ouwendijk, Louise de Vries Lentsch, graphic work.

In de Nieuwe Kunstruimte, show of paintings with 4 colleagues, 's-Hertogenbosch