Mieke Clement, Henk Oelen & Marjan Nagtegaal

About this activity.

Information about this exhibition:

Mieke Clement:

Mieke Clement's abstract paintings set the viewer in motion, which can initiate an inner process. The color world is intense and speaks its own visual language. No shape is needed for that.

Her work is a creative process that is guided by colors and themes.

The colors are often painted in many layers over each other. Then thinly glazed, then again in thick layers, applied with a palette knife. The color areas tell their own story with their different structures and light intensity.

In addition to color, a text, poem or piece of music can also be the reason for a painting. The Stabat Mater has been inspiring in both text and music in the performance of various composers.

The daily walks she takes on the Geeser Es, the immense space and simple, austere structure in the landscape also help her in the search for peace, space and harmony in her paintings.

Mieke Clement mainly works with oil paint with panel as a background. In recent years, her work mainly consists of several panels, joined together in aluminum frames. In this way, 'two, triptych or quadruptychs' are created in different formations.

Mieke lives and works in Gees (Drenthe)

At an exhibition in the Waterschapshuis Coevorden it was written about her:

'This painter is guided by color in the painting process. She sets color areas and color stripes against each other. Careful considerations give the colors great intensity. She makes her conscious and unconscious choices based on intuition and experience. As a result, the 'order' in her paintings has a natural self-evidence. Her working method has a 'Zen touch'. At the moment of creation, there is only the paint and the panel.

Henk Oelen

In 2014 Henk had a retrospective exhibition in the temporary exhibition space TAS at the

Stationsstraat in Groningen about 30 years of artistry.

After years of more or less figurative images based on fragments from Greek mythology he decided to rejoin the more abstract constructions of slats, planks and sheet material from the eighties and nineties but on a small scale. He wanted the images to look open, airy and moving. Hence it iron wire as a connecting material between the pieces of residual wood and sometimes other materials.It also turned out that at least two of the three basic shapes 'line, plane and volume' were always included one image ended up. Occasionally a supporting color was added, sometimes this makes it a bit more colorful. In addition to the accidental shapes of the residual material, Henk also used sawn-out shapes. It is not art that propagates a social vision, nor an attempt to interpret it. indictment against or reflection on certain aspects of our current society, whether or not they are acceptable. It's what you see. No more, but no less. Abstract constructions of simple materials that keep surprising you with the seemingly impossible constructions and the great differences in views that you see, and that make you happy.

Marjan Nagtegaal

Structures and space

Stones, grasses, the ground, people in motion, everything around us is made up of structures and lines that constantly change shape due to shadow and wind. First people in motion, but then especially the empty landscape is the subject of my drawings, watercolors and paintings. I apply structure to canvas with monotype, I also use watercolor in my own way by adding ink and chalk. The empty landscape was created by the need for peace and space. I have been living in the outskirts of the Achterhoek for five years, I walk there a lot and when I look at the landscape I see the ground, stones, twigs, grasses and the sky. Together they make the landscape.

I did the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Besides my work as a visual artist, I have always taught at Kunstenhuis De Bilt/Zeist. There I taught figure drawing, watercolor and academy class. I now teach small groups in my studio in Lochem.

Since 1990 I exhibit everywhere in the Netherlands and abroad.

Info exhibition:

• From September 6 to October 8, 2023
• Opening Exhibition: Sunday September 10 at 4 pm
• Meet the exhibitors Sunday 24 September from 2 pm to 4 pm
• Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday from 1 pm to 5 pm
• Free entrance

Galerie Forma Aktua.

Al decennia lang functioneert Forma Aktua Pinakotheek als een platform voor al het opkomend talent in Noord-Nederland. Tegelijk volgt de galerie ook de ontwikkelingen in de wereld van de reeds meer gevestigde kunstenaars op de voet.

Location.

Forma Aktua
Nieuwstad 10
tel 050 3133342
www.forma-aktua.nl/