Jw Rijneveldshoek

JW Rijneveldshoek is a professional multidisciplinary artist (painter, fine art photographer & writer) from Rotterdam (Netherlands). At the moment he lives at Heemstede, close to Amsterdam.

JW on his paintings:
'I'd been making art through photo editing – a.k.a. fine art photography – for years (see ). In 2018, I started painting again.
I am and always will be a storyteller. Even as a painter. I work without sketches beforehand. I start with a title and I write it down. That title awakens a certain feeling in me. So I sit down in front of the empty canvas and let that feeling sink in until I know which movement and color to start with. Then I start to paint.
I paint without brushes. I apply the paint to the canvas with my hands and fingers to reinforce the intuitive process. As soon as I no longer know how to proceed, I sit down in front of the canvas again. And I wait until I feel how to proceed. With which movement, with which color, with which technique. This is how my paintings arise from that one title.

JW: 'My last name is quite complicated for people who don't speak Dutch. But, for those who speak English, it sounds like "Rhine felt hook", which is a little poem in itself.' ;-)

- 'Nergens Thuis', group exposition in Zwolle (Grote Kerk) - 2016
- 'Tot Zover', foto expositie, Galerie Scala, Culemborg
- 'Rotterdam Rotterdam', foto exposition Galerie Kralingen, Rotterdam - 2018
- 'Thuiskomen' / Manivesta, duo exposition in Gorinchem - 2023