Jan And Alide Bouwsema

Painter couple from Lunteren

You will find information about both painters here.

Jan Bouwsema works figuratively. The images he paints arise directly from visible reality. Not that he tries to imitate the environment, but he wants to interpret it. His work is characterized by loose keys and soft colors.

Alide Roelofs mainly paints portraits and human figures, in which the atmosphere and the emotion are very important. Her work is characterized by the striking resemblance, not in a photographic way, but painterly.

Alide and Jan also make paintings together.
Collaboration takes place especially with portraits in somewhat larger sizes.
Jan paints with loose intuitive keys and Alide works with striking certainty!
As a result, form and resemblance are well taken, and the painting acquires a
dynamic appearance.
You can see these paintings on the page "collaboration".

Jan Bouwsema (1963) was educated at the University of the Arts, visual arts faculty in Amsterdam. In addition to his work as a free painter, he also works as a teacher of visual subjects at a secondary school.


The paintings depicting flowers, animals, interiors and landscapes, painted in loose strokes, are an interaction between surfaces and lines. The viewer constantly discovers new shapes and colors. The colors are applied in different layers, giving the whole a certain transparency and softness. In this way Jan tries to drag the viewer into the atmosphere of the painting. He starts from the directly observable environment, but does not want to copy it. Using visual means such as color, shape, line and composition, he tries to find a balance between abstraction and figuration.

Alide Bouwsema-Roelofs (1964) followed the teacher training in drawing and crafts in Zwolle. In addition to her work as a portraitist, she teaches visual subjects at a secondary school.
She paints many portraits and human figures, both on commission and in her free work. She usually paints with acrylic on canvas, but she also makes work in watercolor. Alide tries to reproduce a certain mood, in which light, color, soft shapes and keys are importan...

Exhibitions and expositions

2001-2003 Gallery Kei, Amersfoort
2004-2005 Gallery Expoline, Scherpenzeel
2010 Art festival 'Elephant in Boa', Ede
2011 Gallery Polhus, Nijkerk
2012 Kernhem House, Ede
2012 gallery Kesk-Art, Workum
2013 Gallery A-quadraat, Vorden
2014 Gallery Lauswolt, Ureterp
2015 Ede art festival, 'The taste of Van Gogh',
2015 Great Church Cultural Emmen
2015 Gallery Lauswolt, Ureterp
2017 Kernhem House, Ede
2020 Museum Lunteren. group exhibition "art line"