Richard Bouwman

At the moment my work as an artist consists out of making paintings and works on paper. I mainly work in series, whereby, after inner reflection, works are created around certain themes.
I try to explore and work out these themes in different ways.
Next to intuition and emotion, spontanity and vitality are the motors to realize
my personal vision. In my work I strife to integrate the conceptual and the intuitive. World literature and poetry, classical mythology and painting itself,
are a source of inspiration for my work, in which there is a coming together of abstraction and figuration. Language, in for me relevant words and texts, are playing a role in my work. Elements of language do mark the images and also evoke images of their own. A good part of the work has an erotic undertone.

Ernest Van Buynder, president of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
(MuHKA), wrote in the catalogue ‘Abundance’ (2008):
One is never confronted with an absolute anatomy of form and of colour in his new works, for they are heavy with traces of organic forms. In the vertical
structures we see even anthropomorphic forms. Man as a being which remains within the reign of nature, an eternal challenge to everything cultural and spiritual.

Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam 1967-1973, painting and graphics

Richard Bouwman was born on August 10, 1947 in Rotterdam, where he studied painting and graphics at the Willem de Kooning Academy from 1967 till 1973.He showed his works a.o. at the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, NL (1987), at the Musée Arthur Rimbaud in Charleville-Mézières, F (1999), in Paris at the Institut Néerlandais (1997) and with Hypegallery (2004) at the Palais de Tokyo. From 2001 till 2011 he showed almost yearly at the Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Düsseldorf.
In 2007 he showed the series The Sacred Vineyards at the Museum of Nature in Rotterdam and the series Abundance at Livingstone gallery in The Hague. In 2010, at the same gallery, he showed the series Imago Magica.
In 2014 he showed his work at the Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW and he participated in the exhibition Angels and Demons at Livingstone gallery, which gallery also showed his work at Art The Hague and in 2015 at Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair. That year he participated in the exhibition Boomers Art at WTC ART Gallery in Rotterdam and on the occasion that seven works on paper and the edition/portfolio Délires/Delirium, all from his series La chasse spirituelle, were acquired for the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the exhibition La chasse sp...