Peter Heij

Peter Heij, born in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1960. Lives and works in the Auvergne, Puy de Dome, France. Ande before in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He attended the Royal Academy for Art and Design (AKV | St. Joost) at Den Bosch from 1982 to 1987, specialized in painting. During his academic period, he produced works in numerous styles including figurative, expressionistic, and abstract. He continued primarily in realism, practiced from his youth and enriched with his academy experiences.
The themes and subjects of some of these post-academy paintings deal with people and the impact of their surroundings on their identities, particularly in the Figures (Gestalten) series. Others endeavour to reconstruct landscapes of the past (the Lostland paintings) or attempt to capture the shapes of the ephemeral (the Skyscapes). A more recent group of works reveals the traces made on a landscape by its inhabitants (Santa Fe footpaths). Created in the same period as the New Mexico group, Peter executed a collection of sketches of faces from memory (Faces).
In the Photo paintworks, the realistic images of photographs become enmeshed with painting and other techniques. The captured and unmoving reality is thereby changed, questioned, and placed into ...

1982 – 1987
Royal Academy for Art and Design (akv | St Joost), Den Bosch, Netherlands.
Specialized in painting.

Peter Heij has regularly exhibited both in the Netherlands and abroad.
Group exhibitions took place at;
Nel art, Cape Town South Africa. Summer Salon 2021 - Febr. 2022. Curator Luan Nel. A selection from the series Figures. Exhibition of the gallery collection (Febr./March 2020), and the Summer Salon 2020 - Febr. 2021. Curator Luan Nel. A selection from the circular Skyscapes.
The Orange Water Contemporary Art Festival 4, Greece. Theme; Reflections of Origin. 2018-1019; EAP (Hellenic Open University) -School of Applied Arts, Patras. 2018; Nederlands Instituut Athene (NIA). Curator Apostolis Zolotakis. A selection of the oil paintworks series Figures.
UFOFABRIK Contemporary Art Gallery (Moena, Italië); P.A.T. Pavia Art Talent, Pavia, Italië. Art Thessaloniki Contemporary art fair, Thessaloniki, Greece. ArtNordic International ArtFair, Lokomotivværkstedet, Copenhagen, Denmark. Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spain. Broad selection among others of the series Figures and Photo paintworks (2018).
25 year Atelier Vincent van Oss, anniversary group exhibition. Curator Vincent van Oss. Selection Photo paintworks Figures (2018).
Galerie Sous-Terre/Flower Art Museum, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands. Exhibition ‘Unity in diversity’.
Selection Photo paintw...