more of my abstract paintings on http://heijnsbroek.exto.org
Contemporary abstract paintings
I live and paint in Amsterdam, in the midst of the old city, on the fourth floor. There I do my contemporary abstract paintings, since 1989. It is an intuitive way of making abstract painting, I do, without ideas before-hand. For me the picture has to develop itself during the process of painting.
Intuitive abstract painting means to me, I have no image when I start to paint, so the images calls themselves into visual life during the process of painting itself. Of course I must be open for their calling, and I must keep myself aware of everything what comes up and asks for a place in the picture, and I must decide. This is the side of intuitive abstract painting, the coming things beyond me; it is the very dynamic processor, operating in the process of painting. On the other hand I myself must be aware and use my individual history, my attitudes, emotions and all my collected experiences; they form the basis on which I have to make my visual decisions again and again. That is my side and my responsibility in the creative process. I am not only a receptive empty mind; I learned and lived year by year. And together with that I must keep my mind open to the new visual sounds coming to me as free birds, as representatives of the unknown; it is a living paradox .......
(painting at the right: gouache nr. 6.618, made in spring 2008)
My abstract paintings themselves exist from intuition and they speak only in the language of images and visual imagination, mostly beyond myself. This is the area where I transcend and opens myself for new views which come to me. Painting lies in the twilight between the known and the unknown. I am not mastering the painting; on the other hand, I am not just the victim who just can follows the sound of the universe. It lies between! And the point is: there does not exist a fixed point. That is what art is about, I presume.
Fons Heijnsbroek
more of my abstract paintings on: http://heijnsbroek.exto.org
