Blue Bridge Print

Dr. Cornelis van Houte is a contemporary painter from Pays de Herve. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hasselt and specializes in landscapes. He is a painter in the new contemporary style known as neo-impressionism and expressionism. This approach to painting combines both realism and abstraction in an innovative way. He is inspired by the Leningrad school of painters, such as Nikolai Timkov, Aleksey Motorin and Bato Durgazaphov. One of the core ideas behind his vision is the idea that creating a master painting is not at all about making a faithful reproduction of what you see. But rather it is all about creating a beautiful perceptual experience, which is based on some fundamental truths of nature. It is the latter that makes the painting more powerful, since it relates to us on a human level.