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Checkers Artist Twan de Vos

• He attended the Academy of Art in Arnhem and received a diploma in 1993 and began a professional career as an illustrative artist, but his private work includes acrylic paintings, sculptures, lino-cuts and silkscreen prints; he currently has his studio in an old stone factory in the meadows facing the Rhine River in Wageningen.
  
  
• He’s co-publisher of the Arts Agenda and co-organizer of the Wageningen Cultural Circuit.
  
  
• Twan’s style is considered as ‘free art’but shows a blend of Pop and Naïve Art, with much of a cartoon-like focus in his depiction of a variety of themes.
  
  
• The Dutch artist’s depictions always seem to be about people, their relationships and their emotions represented in a vivid and bold palette, where the black and white checkers pattern is a unique contrast to the bright color patterns within the compositional design.
  
  
• He draws his inspiration from his own daily existence and common place experiences and each painting is a collage from the pages of his life during different time periods because as he says, “feelings are timeless”.
  
  
• Twan’s genre themes are depicted in an open, humoristic and anecdotal manner displaying human figures in leisure activities such as Checkers or situations involving family and friends; the artwork motif is not always cheerful in its subject matter but it is created to still evoke a smile of recognition of the circumstances or the emotions presented.
  
  
• The checkers game scene has been created by designing the motif in bold, color patterns in a flat and childlike approach but the mood represented within the composition is happy and the checkers players and observers are having fun around the checkerboard; the atmosphere conveyed is relaxed and friendly and the painting evokes a question ~ Who’s going to win?
  
  
• The checkered pattern or a colored variation of it is seen in many of his designs within the clothing, furniture, tables or flooring of the scenes to define the setting, theme or mood.

    



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“…I will only be able to paint a limited number of paintings in my lifetime. My technique is very time consuming because I use a lot of layers of paint to obtain the color intensity and fully realized effects that I desire. I believe in quality over quantity.”

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