Jeroen Melkert

After many sculptures I felt the desire to let float fields of colour and light, in order to sharpen my view.

Everyone has both a male and a female side in his personallity.
Erecting sculptures, flowing aquarelles....
Sculpturing is a work to dig under the skin in an attempt to approach the origin of things: looking at things from their inside.
Painting is a work of reinventing light, in order to let yourself overwhelm with apearance.
Looking at a landscape in real for a long time can result to a divine experience and gives peace with everything in it.
Watercolour is a medium without substance, so there is no question about modeling texture and so on. It is like film, it is close to projection and because of that close to how you can dream. Just a few dreamed pictures are enough to let overwelm you and sink down in impressions and emotions.
I write my dreams for many years now and when I read them back ,even those of twenty years ago, the first few words are enough to experience back the whole dream with all the details.
Thats how I like a good painting to be; a few dots and spots, carefully layed down. A field of colour and someone can experience the whole place , with smell and noises all together.
I want to make resources of...

Akademie voor beeldende kunsten Arnhem (1980-1986)