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www.matthieuvanriel.nl Inspiration for my work comes from many walks along flowerfields, in heathlands and polders in The Netherlands and rugged mountainous regions in Scandinavia and the Alps. The paintings have a great clarity of colour and focus on landscape features, such as the flatness of the Dutch scenery. Some paintings are almost abstract, such as the Boundary series, started in 1998. This shows a figurative language bordering on geometry, using a minimal amount of paint. These paintings are a formal approach to landscape, to paint the essence of landscape, to be aware of light, spatiality, silence, immateriality and emptiness in landscape. I am constantly reducing and simplifying elements of the landscape, making them more schematic and conceptual, as well as much flatter. I allow myself great variety within the context of landscape. I also create floor and wall objects, presenting surfaces of brightly coloured pigment on the ground or wall-mounted linen. Geometric shapes, such as the rectangle and the oval, predominate. Other paintings are precisely abstracted translations of feelings and experiences during the walks: the grandeur of nature, immateriality, emptiness, colours or spatiality. Painted with professional top-quality Lefranc & Bourgeois acrylic paint. Painted on high quality canvas. The painting will be shipped rolled up in a sturdy cardboard tube, without a stretcher frame. Education: Academy of Arts Sint Joost Breda The Netherlands. Diploma of Higher Education 1987. I graduated cum laude. Museums: I exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Breda Netherlands (2018 and 2019) and the Jan Cunen Museum Oss Netherlands. Grants: 1991 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 www.matthieuvanriel.nl

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 9.4 H x 0.9 D in

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