Hans Heijman - Fraaie in oplage van slechts 65 gemaakte verstilde Ets "verlaten land" 1982 - Sold

• The work of Hans Heijman, who lives and works in Zaltbommel, is diverse in nature. Not only does he use multiple techniques, including: painting, etching, drawing and the manufacture of wood-painted images. It can also take several paths in form.

Although he often works figuratively, he can also explore the border areas between figuration and abstraction. The landscape, life itself with all its sensory experiences are a source of inspiration for this versatile artist. Hans Heijman calls himself a doer, a craftsman, and has a strong need to convert his experiences into images in order to give expression to his life by doing. Ideas often arise during the action. Lines, shapes and colors evoke other ideas. Always looking for order, harmony, balance and composition. Shaping a world in which you can live as a person and an artist. And above that hangs unmistakably the music. In recent years he has mainly been engaged in drawing and painting. The paintings often arise from drawings. Painting is instant. Paint on the brush and act. This is in contrast to making graphics, which is rather an indirect action. His images are often populated by human figures in imaginary spaces and landscapes, where the bottom can be the top. Far away, close by. Where light can be dark and truth imagination. Where everything can be nothing and nothing everything. "For a man who seeks to realize himself through the endowments which he or she has naturally received, is doing the loftiest and the only meaningful thing that he is capable of." Herman Hesse: Narcissus and Goldmund.