Koos Smit

Koos Smit (Jacobus Cornelis Maria Smit) Born in Berkel-Rodenrijs The Netherlands.
Koos has been working as a selftaught artist up till 1980.
In 1981 he took lessons in painting at the "Vrije Akademie” in Rotterdam, and continued his studies in fine art and painting in 1983 at the "Koninklijke Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten" in The Hague.
In 1988 he graduated successfuly .
Since that time Koos is working as an independent artist and has had many exhibitions in a variety of galleries and art-promoting institutions, as well as in The Netherlands as abroad.

Momentarily, Smit is working mainly with acryllic paints on canvas.
With a combination of acryllics and varnishes he has managed to attain a quality, comparable to oil-paintings, in structure, depth and coloration.
By bringing in pieces of paper, textiles and pigments he attains structure and relief and the paintings acquire depth by strong lines and robust primairy colorfields.
The refinement of beautiful, saturated color intensities, arises trough many layers of thin paint. (glaze).
Choosing for acryllic paints gives him the possibility to work prolonged, fast and dedicated.
During certain stages of the proces of painting it is important to work fast, to be abl...

Koos Smit worked until 2009 after many experiments, mainly with acrylic on linen. Due to the greatly improved quality and capabilities of both acrylic and varnish, he has achieved a quality and durability comparable to oil paint. By means of a layout in which modestly pigment, paper or textile is applied to the canvas, structures and reliefs arise. Subsequently, a subterranean painting is developed in large lines and large color areas. After that, Koos Smit, as he himself calls 'sophistication and flowering', consists of many thin transparent layers of paint (a so-called 'glacis'), which achieves layeredness and a beautiful saturated color intensity. The choice for acrylic paint gives him the ability to work on both long-term and fast-moving. The latter is important to him because he can follow his intuition, while still maintaining the momentum of dynamics. Over the last three years, however, the oil paintings have also reappeared in the techniques that the artist applies. His expressive paintings are still abstract, but since 2009 they have been regularly developed from a model sketch or a combination of model sketches, which he puts in the early stages of the painting. After that, the artist interferes with the feminine form of ...