Ari Stolk - Fraai realistisch vierluik acrylverf - "vogels op de plas" - gesigneerd - 1983 - Sold

• Ari Stolk (Rotterdam, January 31, 1934 – Rhoon, July 12, 2017) was a Dutch painter and draftsman. Nature and birds are an important theme in his work. He is counted among the Independent Realists.
• Ari Stolk started as an illustrator in the advertising industry at the age of 18 and made drawings for teaching materials for the NTI in Breda. Later he also made greeting cards and calendars independently. Because of his love for birds, he has become known as an illustrator for books such as 'Birds Natural' and 'Vogels Watching' and for the magazines 'De Lepelaar' and 'Vogels' of Vogelbescherming Nederland.
  

He used different styles and materials: at first he mainly worked with gouache, and later with oil paint, but he also made watercolors and pen drawings. As a cartoonist he has won prizes in Russia (at Kartoenale), Japan (1983)[2] and Italy. He has been allowed to make politically tinted cartoons for newspaper Het Vrije Volk, among others. After 30 years he switched to a different style and became a free visual artist, which he stopped in 2010 due to health problems. He gained a lot of inspiration during his travels to nature reserves. He was active within the Artists for Nature Foundation