by RvdGraaf | Sep 7, 2021
Back to overview Jezus 1999 / Conté on paper / 64 x 49 cm In this work you can recognise the early shaping of the themes of his current work. His interest in personal development and religion has always been an inspiration for him. Although not being raised in a...
by RvdGraaf | Sep 7, 2021
Back to overview Picasso 1999 / Graphite on paper / 45 x 30 cm Van de Graaf has also been interested in the expression of people, in how you can transmit character and soul from a face into a drawing. More of this series French Village in Light Garden...
by RvdGraaf | Sep 7, 2021
Back to overview Grandmother and Nana 1999 / Graphite on paper / 27 x 35 cm Van de Graaf’s Nana (his English grandmother) has been of great importance of his early artistic career. Being an amateur painter herself and an admirer of Monet, Chagall and Picasso it was...
by RvdGraaf | Sep 7, 2021
Back to overview ‘t Groninger Land 1998 / Oil on linen (stretched on artist made frame) / 150 x 240 x 3,0 cm This work is inspired by Van de Graaf’s early interest in nature and the mysticism of the philosophy of life, themes which he is also using in his...
by RvdGraaf | Sep 7, 2021
Back to overview Eternal Depth 1997 / Oil on linen / 125 x 155 cm This work is inspired by Van de Graaf’s early interest in the mystic atmosphere in nature, a theme he is also using in his current work. He has had the desire to work on larger canvasses form the...