Ton Van Velsen

Every day I start something new. “From Here to Further”.

My works are inspired by nature, from earthly to cosmic.
I make abstractions that depict 'becoming, growth and origins' in all their apparent arbitrariness and capriciousness. I sketch an upward movement up to a tipping point towards erosion and decay. I place myself at that tipping point and from that position I make my calligraphic expressions. My works are mixtures of something and nothing. Ultimately everything dissolves, but the coherence is not lost and the processes continue: “from Here to Further” is my theme.
I am like a tracker who draws material from my archive of images and data that I made earlier. Then again I make new images depending on what comes to mind, fascinates or moves me. When I start working on something new, chaos arises in my head from which I look for direction or end up on a track. Then I continue working and something grows. I link my memory to the terabytes of data on my computers. I use those images as a painter mixes paint on his palette. Or I take my digital pen, brush or pencil at the same time - which moves with me according to my feelings. Intuition, emotion and feeling steer me in a certain direction and I let myself drift along with tha...

Academy of Arts, Utrecht, the Netherlands.