John Hacking

Artists name: canandanann. To get an impression see the movies on: https://www.youtube.com/
I'm starting painting around 1970. I was influenced by the work of the Japanese painter Kaij Higashiyama who used self-made pigments. That inspires me to do the same. The landscape is one of my favorite theme's. Often I use a photo of a landscape as a starting point in my paintings. So I made different collections of landscapes which inspire me. I like the melancholy in the landscape, the sacral dimension and the semiotic vision on it.

Inspirated by Chinese Japanese landscape (Kaij Higashiyama a.o). Also by Anselm Kiefer, Armando, Casper David Friedrich and many others like Marc Chagall and Henry Matisse. Painting with pigments, ink, sumi-e, mostly on paper. In the 80's I illustrated affiches and magazines and made backgrounds for theater and music festivals in Heerlen. I had some exhibitions in Amsterdam, Deventer, The Hague and Nijmegen, Epen, Hoofddorp, Den Bosch and other places (France-Normandy).

Last ones:
* 2021-2024: Way of the cross Radboud University Chaplaincy
* 2020: until now: Homage to Joseph Beuys - pigments-collage - wooden boxes- Nijmegen Radboud University
* 2017-2020: Munster Germany - changing exposition
* 2019: Life of Mary 17 paintings* 2017: 9 Faces of Christ before and during his Passion - Chaplaincy Radboud University Nijmegen
* 2015 Exposition in Grang De Paul Art Den Bosch
* 2015: (Euc. Center) Ark - Hoofddorp Netherlands