Gerard Te Wierik

MOVEMENTS

Painting is movement. Dipping your brush or palette knife into the paint, applying it to the canvas. Concentrated, precise, sometimes wild and expressive. You step back, walk back to the work, and the process begins again. Creating an underpainting and then layering color upon color until these layers merge on the canvas into a single whole: a colorful contrast.

Gerard te Wierik is exhibiting a selection of his works from the Movements series. The essence of this series is movement, inspired by nature in the Netherlands, and specifically in Overijssel. The place where Te Wierik grew up and where he works. Here he witnessed the changing seasons, a mild breeze gently rustling the reeds, the green fields transforming into bright yellow cornfields and marshy brown grass in autumn.

Gerard te Wierik is always using a similar method for the creation of his artworks. First, he starts with the surface of the painting, which consists of one or multiple colors. Hereafter he applies several colors in different layers of paint. All these different layers eventually melt together into a unity, in which the eye of the spectator is wandering around the painting looking for one point to focus on. While the eye is wandering around the p...

Self-educated

Gerard te Wierik (born 1956) is a strong and distinctive craftsman. He trained as a traditional graphic designer with extensive knowledge and mastery of various techniques. When the advent of digitalization in the 1980s with the arrival of the Apple Macintosh presented an opportunity, Te Wierik seized it with both hands. As an artist, he now combines the knowledge of his former craft with painting. Computer use remains a key element of his working method. His background in graphic design has also contributed to his love of designs, patterns, and color.

Raalte (Rabobank), Brunssum (Brunssum Town Hall)
Mettingen, Germany (Town Hall), Raalte, Town Hall (2002)
Raalte (2003-2004 retrospective exhibition at Galerie de Hoven)
Nijverdal (OBD) (2006), Raalte, Homage to Henri Grijmans Sweet-art (2007)
Hampshire Hotel Groningen Centre Movements (2012),
Wijhe Town Hall, Movements (2014), Landscape in my Head, Hengelo (2015)
Boundless Art Exploration, Movements, IJhorst/de Wijk (2017)
Dalfsen Town Hall, Movements (2017) Exhibition: Away from Art, Kampen (2018)
Mystery of Life Raalte Plaskerk (2019)
In 2022, the Musiom Museum (Amersfoort) has included works from the Movements series in their collection, and Te Wierik has participated in the exhibitions "Low Countries and the Sea" and "Frozen in Time."
Permanent exhibitor at Gallery MicksArt in Emmen from 2022 to 2025.