Laurens' Choice Painting

I pursue an illustrative painting style which is, to a large extent, influenced by old masters of the romantic period of the 19th century. Since my boyhood days, when I first got in contact with my parent’s art books and also from visits to arts museums, I am thrilled by the craftsmanship of painters like Eugene Delacroix, Theodore Gericault, George Stubbs, to name a few. In many of my works one can find references to their art in terms of subject matter and painting technique. I love to paint people and horses. Mostly I assemble elements from more than one source and I put much emphasis on composition, color, atmosphere and style. In this sense I don’t care for logic and I experiment a lot, combining and arranging figures and objects in a sometimes surrealistic way. Image compositions and also the narrative aspects of most of the paintings are often influenced by the „world“ of comic strips, motion pictures and magazine advertising.