Willem Krijgsman
Works available
Ars-Häme ry:n taidelaanamo / Taidehalli Häme & Taidelainaamo, Hallituskatu 14, 13100 Hämeenlinna, p. 045 491 0696Vantaan Taiteilijaseuran taidelainaamo / myynti, Galleria K, Asematie 7, Tikkurila, ke-pe 11-17, la-su 12-16, puh. 045 1961155Taiteilijalta suoraan. Straight from the artist.Basic information
b. 1953, Delft, Holland.
Visual Artist
Residence: Riihimäki
Contact information
Email: wimdirk@hotmail.fi
Artist’s Statement
I am a Visual Artist working in drawing and sculpture. As an artist I connect feelings with fantasy.
As a painter I paint with colour-pencils. Colour-pencils are for me the palette and brash. My paintings are intertextual collages formed out of persons and fragments borrowed from art history. Art history is my inspirator and model. In that way I weave my inner feelings into art.
I work always within a thema: e.g. my integration process as a Dutchman into the Finnish society, the climate change and other current issues.
In my sculptures of clay the human face is my sourse of inspiration. I freely model portraits with strong emotional expression. I have called them "Echos out of My Inner Gallery", "Ballads" and "Closeups".
As a painter I paint with colour-pencils. Colour-pencils are for me the palette and brash. My paintings are intertextual collages formed out of persons and fragments borrowed from art history. Art history is my inspirator and model. In that way I weave my inner feelings into art.
I work always within a thema: e.g. my integration process as a Dutchman into the Finnish society, the climate change and other current issues.
In my sculptures of clay the human face is my sourse of inspiration. I freely model portraits with strong emotional expression. I have called them "Echos out of My Inner Gallery", "Ballads" and "Closeups".
Current information
2023:
I have written the book: Fifty-Fifty, about my integration process into the Finnish society. My integration has been by culture and by my own visual art. The book has been published in Finnish.
2020-21-22
I continue drawing the serie of colour-pencil-drawings called: Down by the River.
2019:
October: Vantaa, Gallery K, group exhibition, The Finnish Painters' Union 90th Anniversary Exhibition, participating with two paintings.
September-November: Svenska Teatern, Turku, Finnish epos Kalevala thema exhibition. Arranged by taiko.art. Participating with four paintings.
