Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings Bringing the core back into Art
Catalogue Collection 2017 Female Landscapes and Cityscapes
Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
Biography
Edwin (1969) is born in The Netherlands. He is inspired by the Dutch Golden Age. Approximately 10 years ago, he pursued his artistic path by going to the Art Academy where he took masterclasses. In this time, he studied drawing, anatomy, perspective, lighting, painting and in particular the techniques of the Old Masters. Edwin is intruiged by their work as the evidence of the sustainability of their works hang in musea world-wide. This is the quality Edwin wants to deliver: sustainable artworks that last for centuries. It was meant that he had to study chemistry. It now enables him achieving his goal, as a art academy would not have provided him. He studied tractates of the old masters, the chemistry of pigments, supports and paint and this revealed him the secret why these century old works are still in excellent shape.
Exhibitions
2017: London, Brick Lane Gallery in collaboration with Nina Torres Fine Art 2016: Barcelona Internationa Art Fair,2016 2015: Miami Art EXPO, Nina Torres Fine Art Gallery 2014: ROSArt Sittard, Maurice Knops Fine Art Gallery 2013: ROSArt Sittard, Maurice Knops Fine Art Gallery 2012: ROSArt Sittard, Maurice Knops Fine Art Gallery 2012: Kunstroute Sittard-Geleen 2011: Maastricht (MECC), Art in the Park 2010: Kunstroute Sittard-Geleen 2010: Maastricht (MECC), Art in the Park 2010: Maastricht, Kunsttour 2010, Timmerfabriek
Bibliography
Gorissen, Adri: “How Chemistry helps the Artist”, fullpage article, Dagblad De Limburger, July 28th, 2015, page B13 2013-2014: Palet Magazine: 6 articles in the Dutch Art magazine Palet about the support, the sizing and grounding of the support, pigments, oil paint, acrylic paint and media. Frontpage publication, Dagblad De Limburger, October 25th 2011: Lenny Kuhr & Joes Boonen: TV Limburg Interview about painting techniques
Painter of Female Landscapes and Cityscapes Touching your feminin and masculin core
Artist Statement Edwin believes that people get the best out of themselves when they are close to their core, their heart and their nature.
What you have or what you wear is not who you are. This is your
outer shell and not your core. Edwin believes that people flourish when they are close to their core, their essence.
He strongly believes that art is the most powerful instrument
to touch your deepest core and to inspire you, resulting in: pure PASSION. ART comes from the latin word l’Arte which means a human activity that expresses Creativity and Aesthetics. It is the aesthetic expression of the human soul. The art is known having the capacity to transmit emotions and suggestive messages, creates visions and inspires and motivates people. Everybody has a masculine and a feminine part. By his Female Landscapes, Edwin wants to touch your feminine part. Therefore, his paintings reveal the female anatomy as a metaphore for your own beauty, empathy and creativity. Every brushstroke discloses the feminine power and vulnerability. With his City Scapes, Edwin wants to touch the more masculine part of you. Urban architecture is the metaphore for structure, pragmatism and focus in you.
You will notice a strong light and/or color contrast in Edwin’s
paintings. By sculpturing with dark, light and colors, he creates his artworks. In contrast to the current trend of photorealism (hyperrealism), Edwin paints naturally as how the eye observes in contrast to the camera. To Edwin’s opinion, it is about the emotions and feelings that the artist expresses that makes paintings art, similar to ‘c’est le ton qui fait la musique’. Without nick-nack, in all simplicity coming back to the essence of life and thus also to yours. It is about your naked truth, your empowerment. For Edwin this is a strong statement, as is represented in the strong contrasts in his paintings.
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
HOW are the artworks created? Edwin’s vision is that art should last forever. To achieve this, an artist needs the competences and knowlegde of glueing pigments (color powders) on a support e.g. linnen, wood. Here the artist needs to know how to combine the different materials to create a sustainable artwork. This is chemistry, which is not teached anymore in art academies today. Therefore, Edwin uses original, genuine pigments (proven to survive centuries) instead of modern pigments that are very different in color, texture and quality. Due to his chemical background, Edwin has access to these pigments and he prepares his own paint from them, since they are not commercially available. The resulting effects cannot be created with contemporary chemical alternatives, (see more in Technique). To conclude: buying one of Edwin’s paintings, you make sure that the painting remains in its original quality for your lifetime and many generations beyond.
Making marouflage
Making glue
Technique - Sustainable Art - TheArtChemist® When observing art history, then it is also obvious that The Old Masters paintings, which are already between the 300 and 600 years old, are still in excellent condition. Being a chemist, Edwin recognized that their techniques are based on fundamental chemical laws. He was fascinated and surprised that the Old Masters seemed to know these laws, without the current chemical knowledge. Isn’t this amazing? This must have been either from experience or from excellent intuition. After studying 17th century literature, current investigations by other scientists, and his own chemical knowledge (Edwin has an organic and organometallic chemistry background), Edwin understands very well how to build a sustainable piece of art, since he understands the chemistry behind, and how the pigments and the oil interact with each other. Innovation Edwin prepares so-called marouflage as support to benefit from the sustainability of a painting on a panel while keeping the warm look and feel from the linen. This is a 3000 year old technique, where a canvas is glued on a solid support, like, wood. For this, Edwin uses the best linen in the world: Belgian Linen®(the climate and terroir in Belgium is excellent for flax agriculture, linen is made from the flax plant, as well as the linseed oil that is used in oil paint). Then he grounds it with self made secret gesso (primer). After that, he paints the panel with one colour, the “imprimitura”. This initial layer determines the final atmosphere in the painting, as it shines through the final artwork. Therefore, it is extremely important to choose this imprimitura layer correctly. Then follows laborious process of creation of the final painting in many layers (up to approx. 25 layers), using self-made paint using genuine pigments. For more information see: www.edwinijpeij.nl. www.edwinijpeij.nl | email: info@edwinijpeij.nl | phone: +31643905910 | The Netherlands
Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
The Artworks - Female Landscapes Touching your feminine core
About Edwin’s paintings: Female Landscapes Who are those women that Edwin brings into the spotlights? It seems they tell the naked truth, however, on the other hand they don’t disclose fully who they really are. But why? This contrast makes them mysterious and anonymous, yet famous by being eternalized in a Female Landscape. It is a very conscious choice Edwin makes as a message of his paintings. In this world, the attractiveness of the mystery is often destroyed by over-disclosing. Vulnerable but confident and filled with self-respect, all the nice and beautiful soft shapes of these ladies, invite you into their world and stories that all have a message to share with you. They seem chaste, however, are they really that shy? Merely dressed by shadows, they come out of their cocoon. In this metamorphosis, they conquer their vulnerability and liberate themselves to show up nude, celebrating their beauty and self-confidence. This beautiful moment is portrayed by Edwin in his female landscapes. Edwin wants to bring the mystery back by tickling the curiosity of the spectator. The result is that the female landscapes have a chaste and anonymous character, as if the model is dressed in shadows.
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
Title: Kate-Basic Instinct (90 x 60 cm, oil on marouflage, Belgian linen on panel) Frame: Patinated 18 kt Gold Leaf on wood Price on request Giclees on request You may ask yourself: why Edwin chooses such a provocative pose? Edwin wants through his paintings to bring alive all feelings and emotions of women. In this piece of art, the beauty is provocative, wild, instinctive and inspiring. Therefore, this intriguing pose for his model stimulates your imagination. The light is dosed carefully to embrace her body in a timid way. Edwin’s message is: keep the flame in your relationship, keep your imagination alive!
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
Title: Victoria’s Vanitas (90 x 60 cm, oil on marouflage, Belgian linen on panel) Frame: Patinated 18kt Gold Leaf on wood Price on request Giclees on request The posture of this lady is twisted, almost like a DNA helix, that symbolizes the matrix of life, the perfection of the female body, beauty and the inspiration of female anatomy. The clair obscure light co-works with the composition, creating beautiful diagonal lines. The intended anonymous atmosphere is emphasized by nearly abstract forms in this artwork. Edwin has consciously chosen to represent the lady as a vanitas still-life, meaning that physical beauty is perishing, while inner beauty, your core, lasts forever!
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
Title: Kate - Inner Self Respect (150 x 80 cm, oil on Belgian linnen) Price on request Giclees on request Edwin casted Kate who is a woman who knows what she wants. Her self-confidence, power, intellect, truth and confidence in future are expressed by her standing pose, the triangular shapes in the composition and strong contrast in the lighting. But what does she do? Is she a successful business woman, a strong politician or a golden Olympic medal winner? Whatever she is or has achieved, at the core, she is a woman with all her vulnerability. With this painting Edwin wants to inspire women that can always be successful when they find their inner self respect, no matter of condition, religion or colour.
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
Title: Anna as Swan (120 x 80 cm, oil on Belgian linen) Price on request Giclees on request She has beautiful organic round female shapes that are accented in the composition and light. She is like and elegant swan ready to step into life. Young, but confident she leaves behind the comfort-zone from her parental home. In this exciting journey she protects herself with a cloth (self-made Lapis Lazuli blue paint) symbolizing love, peace and harmony. Edwin was inspired by Anna’s spontaneity and self-consciousness,and created a female landscape where she is brought in the full attention. Therefore, the background is kept “silent” and the focus in fully on Anna. With this painting, Edwin wants to encourage women to expand their comfort zone by letting go their fears and uncertainty and finding back courage.
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
Title: Kate - Heartbreak (150 x 100 cm, oil on Belgian linen) Price on request Giclees on request Her relationship just ended. Sad, defeated and miserable characterize her feelings. Her heart is broken, and the pain is overwhelming the beautiful future she is heading. She remembers a quote by Nelson Mandela, “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” That’s why her posture is already upwards. Still sad, however, climbing out of her valley. Her nudity forced her to become vulnerable, the prerequisite to come to your core. Our deepest moments in life often bring us the most valuable experiences.
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
The Artworks - Cityscapes Touching your masculine core
About Edwin’s paintings: Cityscapes In his cityscapes Edwin experiments with structures. In contrast to his Female Landscapes, where his brushstroke is soft and tender, the brushstroke in his Cityscapes is more vivid and masculin, but still delicate. These paintings have due to the pigments used, more “body” and color. Where Edwin’s Female Landscapes show the anatomic architecture, his Cityscapes show urban architecture.
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
Damrak Canal Amsterdam (60 x 30 cm, oil on Masonite) Price on request Giclees on request With this painting of the Amsterdam Damrak (the historical financial centre of Amsterdam), Edwin wants to refer to the most successful company ever in the world: the Dutch East Indian Company (VOC). They had a clear vision and invested huge amounts of money and have been decades in depth because of these investments. However, this brought amazing prosperity and resulted in the blossoming of Dutch Art (The Golden Age, the 17th Century). Artists like Rembrandt benefitted from the “Nouvelle Riche” that followed the VOC success. From this period the Dutch proverb: “de cost gaet voor de baet uyt”, which is best translated in “no pain, no gain”. Today companies don’t dare to do this anymore. What most people don’t know is that the current society the VOC inven-
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
Handelskade Curacao Willemstad (60 x 30 cm, oil on Masonite) Price on request Giclees on request With this painting of an apparently obvious Cityscape, Edwin wants to reveal history that is not generally known. Because of the fronts of the houses, Willemstad is often called the Amsterdam of the Western Hemisphere, however, less people know that the houses have more Portugese origin than Dutch character.
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
Pont du Gard, Provence, France (90 x 45 cm, mixed media on linen) Price on request Giclees on request On his first holiday in France, Edwin was impressed as a boy by the grandeur of the Roman civilization. This huge aquaduct made life possible in dry areas. It is not necessary to emphasize the impressiveness of how they created these impressive structures. It is the summum of human creation and sustainability in their building techniques.
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
View on Sittard (90 x 60 cm, oil on Belgian linen) Price on request Giclees on request Sittard is Edwin’s born town and he painted the beautiful core of just a small town in The Netherlands, even one of the oldest towns of The Netherlands. The core of this painting is the tower of the 14th century Saint Peter’s church. The building’s history goes even further back to the 11th century. This tower has witnessed the many disasters that the city had experienced. Amongst others: the total destroy of the town by the French conquerers in the Franco-Dutch war from 1677. This church was always in Edwin’s attention. Also the core of the town that is embracing this beautiful church, is breathing a very un-Dutch atmosphere, almost French paradoxal enough.
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Edwin IJpeij Oil Paintings
Bringing the core back into Art
INSIDES LONDON 2017 MOST RECENT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
SITTARD (NL, @HOME) : painting and making LAPIS LAZULI paint
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