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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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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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(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 in the Sint Antoniesbreestraat', Amsterdam, pict. 'Gestalten III'
-2003 Cumberland Times (newspaper Maryland, USA); exhibition Will's Creek Survey, Allegany Arts Councel's Saville Gallery, pict. 'Skyscape I' .
-1998 De Echo (newspaper Amsterdam); exhibition Bartje Bakker, pict. 'de Rijstplanter' .
-1998 Vernissage (art magazine Netherlands); review dr. David Bos, exhibition B.Bakker.
-1998 Alert (art gallery magazine Netherlands); review dr. David Bos, exhibition Bartje Bakker, pict. 'Inner Circle' .
-1998 Eindhovens Dagblad (newspaper Netherlands); review Mary Winters; Eternal Vulnerable. Modern art and religion, exhibition State University Groningen, Netherlands.
-1998 Friesch Dagblad (newspaper Netherlands); review/interview Grada Kos; Eternal Vulnerable. Modern art and religion, exhibition State University Groningen, Netherlands.
-1998 Eternal Vulnerable. Modern art and religion, catalogue exhibition State University Groningen, Netherlands,
page 84, pict. 'Looking for God II' .
-1997 De Echo (newspaper Amsterdam); exhibition Gallery Per Adres, pict. 'Monk (3)' .
-1996 Nieuws Tribune (newspaper Netherlands); review Peter van Woensel Kooy; exhibition ArtMarkArtWork (Amsterdam) jubilee of design agency Keja Donia page. 26/27, pict. 'De Zwolsche Mens' (commission).
-1996 De Telegraaf (newspaper Netherlands); exhibition (Amsterdam) ArtMarkArtWork jubilee of design agency Keja Donia (commission).
-1996 ArtMarkArtWork, catalogue jubilee of design agency Keja Donia, page. 86, pict. 'De Zwolsche Mens' (commission). -1995 TV Krant (newspaper Netherlands); condom automatons, pict. 'Forbidden Fruits' (commission).
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