W Van De Wege

I was born in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (1966). From an early age, I was brought up with music (organ and piano) and visual arts. In my early years I was often busy with pencil and brush, and I sold drawings and watercolors to private individuals. Hundreds of drawings in pencil and later with ink were made in my teenage years, and that never stopped. I still do a lot of sketching with pen and watercolor, a favorite activity that you can apply everywhere. I always take a small sketchbook with me wherever I am. Sketching is a creative process that is indispensable for any artist. Your senses are stimulated to reproduce the proportions and atmosphere of the reality that the artist experiences in a short period of time. I often find the sketches of the master painters more interesting than the final works of art. The spontaneity provides a lot of information about the character and emotion of the maker at that moment. I like a spontaneous painting style that ranges from impressionist to abstract 'action painting' style.

I almost always put colors and shapes directly on the canvas, smoothly. During the workshops plein air painting that I give, I often hear from my students that I paint so quickly and accurately. As a result, the artworks radi...

Hogeschool Rotterdam '93

Conservatorium Tilburg '89
Organ and Piano

Conservatorium Tilburg '91
Organ

Willem de Kooning Academie '08
Arts

Domburg Summerexposition Zeeuws Licht
Crisis 1 Gallery Niffo Rotterdam
London (2015) Art gallery
London (2016) Artfair London Days
Kattendijke, Kerk (2016)
Groupsexposition Gallery O Riel
Rome, December 2016
Milaan, December 2016
Rome, March 2017
London Art days
Rotterdam, June and July 2017
The Gallery Yr Oriel Newport Pembs 2018
Milaan Artfestival
Gaudi Gallery Madrid 2018
Kattendijke Art days 2018
Aardenburg, St. Baafs 2019
Welsh Art Week, London 2020
Artfair Luxembourg
Artfair Antwerpen
London Art Days 2021
Wales Artfair 2021
Milan, Europe Art Exhibition 2021
Gallery O Neil, Newport
Europe Art Fair 2022
Nationale Kunstdagen 2022
Art Fair Gorinchem 2022
Art Fair Eindhoven 2022
London, Welsh art days 2023
Nationale Kunstdagen 2023
Dutch Design, Buuren
Artinspire, Dortmund
Europe Art Fair, Amsterdam
Gallery Van de Wege 2024, Putten