Rob Clous - Color etching Title, "Tunisia III - Sold

Rob Clous (Haarlem, 1940) The visual artist Rob Clous was born on April 28, 1940 in Haarlem. Rob signed with H. Boot, Wim Vellekoop, Schutte and Poppe Damave in Haarlem. At the same time he also worked for six years as a set painter at the Nederlandse Comedy in Amsterdam. As a graphic artist he is self-taught. Exhibitions and assignments He is a working member of the Art Center Bergen, the Graphic Society Bergen and the Boterhal Hoorn. A number of art lending centers have his work in their collections. Sometimes he makes prints on behalf of companies, as business or anniversary gifts. This happened for the North Holland Energy Company, the Chamber of Commerce in Haarlem, the Vroom and Dreesman Travel department and the Dutch Basketball Association. He has exhibited at Kunstcentrum Bergen, Stadhuis Lelystad, Kunsthandel Ina Broerse Amsterdam, De Sphinx Den Haag, The Haagse Kunstkring, Galerie Annee Haarlem, Galerie van der Vlist Leiden, Galerie de Gele Rijder Arnhem, Van Rekum galerie Apeldoorn, Tamboer Hoogeveen, Stichting Visual Arts Haarlem, Hoorn, den Helder, Lelystad, and in many other places. The clear and colorful prints of Rob Clous have evolved from his early simple black and white prints. He made these on old roofers' zinc. His subjects are very diverse, he made works about jazz music, ships, scrap and rubbish dumps. Today's etchings are made with four color plates, which fit exactly over each other when printed on the etching press, resulting in a richness of colour. As a result of his travels through Sweden - England - Spain - France - Tunisia - the USA - Indonesia (Bali - Borneo) and Egypt, a large number of etchings were also created. In recent years, Clous has been working on a series of prints about the restoration of 'Tuinwijk', a residential area in Haarlem by the architect JB van Loghem. He himself lives and works in one of the houses in this neighbourhood. His series of prints about the 'Rain Forest' sometimes moves to New Guinea (Papuas - Asmat). He also made prints about the Wayang Golek and Bali. His latest prints were made in response to his trip to Egypt, with subjects including fairy tales with animals. More than eighty of his etchings hang in this Rabobank exhibition.