Suus Kooijman

Painting: Beeswax and pigments on panel

My paintings resemble pictures which are covered with a layer of ice. Through the use of beeswax, the vague layered performances have a transparant and immaterial appearance. It also makes the painting more into a wall object. The warm wax with pigments flow through and over each other to show that I often do not know where it will go, at least initially. It is the material that asks me what to do.

Images that I can not immediately fathom, intrigue me often more than a picture that tells a clear defined message, or complete story. The presentation should tell a story raising questings for the viewer, or just be there with something you want to leave: emotion, thoughts, or memories.
This way I also work on my paintings, I build up the leayers like some kind of labour in which memorial images are part of the painting process.

Academie of Arts Utrecht The Netherlands

"Long Live Rembrandt " exhibition in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. 15 July-15 september 2019
Chosen with my work 'Evening"
A homage to the great master in the museum's summer exhibition.

2019 Koolputten Waasmunster Begie
2019 Summerexpo 2019 Museum the Fundatie Zwolle.
2019 Gallery "Annee" Haarlem 2019
2019 Fist Art Fair Amsterdam-Galerie Annee
2019 Art Breda Grachtengalerie Utrecht
2018 Lausanne Art Fair