Rob Van Hoek

Rob van Hoek September 2012

Born 1957
Autodidact
Professional artist since 1993
Numerous exhibitions in leading Dutch galleries, as well as in galleries in the United Kingdom (London ,Oxford, Newcastle), Denmark and France (St.Malo).
My paintings have been shown at International art fairs (The Netherlands, UK, Belgium, France).

Artist Statement

Subject
During all my years of painting I have been inspired by the landscape, especially the cultivated landscape. Wild, rough and virginal landscapes are beautiful too, but no subject of my paintings.

The patterns, lines, rhythms and shapes of (harvested) fields, a line of trees along a road, a solitaire tree in a field, the houses which liven up the countryside; these are a few items that make the cultivated landscape so inspiring to me. And of course the sky above, adding space and atmosphere.

Perspective is used in a playful way; sometimes flat, sometimes with depth, often both, and together with an emphasis on figurative details, it gives the paintings a more or less naive character.

Painting Technique
On the canvas I put at least 5 or 6 layers of white, gesso-like paint. The brush strokes of these layers give a nice struct...

2023 Doorway Gallery Dublin
2023 Biscuit Factory Newcastle
2020 Seoul Art Show December.
2020 Biscuit Factory Newcastle November
2020. Greenstage gallery Group Winter
2020 AAF London Battersea March
2019 AAF Amsterdam.
2019 The Biscuit Factory Newcastle Winter
2019 AAF Battersea, Hampstead, Bristol, Fresh Art Fair
2018 Art Fair Edinburgh November
2018 . Doorway gallery Dublin
2018 . AAF Battersea London Oktober
2018 Greenstage gallery Group
2018 The Biscuit Factory Newcastle Autumn
2018 De Hollandse Maagd Gouda groep
2018 A-Quadraat Vorden groep
2018 Moeejendaag Tegelen Solo
2017 The Biscuit Factory Newcastle Group
2017 AAF Battersea London Art Fair
2017 Greenstage gallery solo
2017 Galerie Hans Persoon Group
2016 Dom Galerie Wiener Neustadt (Austria) Solo
2016 Imagine Gallery Suffolk (UK) Solo
2016 Annex:art Berlin group
2016 Galerie Année Haarlem group
2016 Affordable Art Fair London (Battersea) Art Fair
2016 Brugman Voorburg Solo
2016 Moeejendaag Tegelen Solo
2015 De Hollandse Maagd Gouda Solo
2015 De Oude School Stroe Solo
2015 Greenstage Gallery Worchester (UK) group
2015 Laerken Hazerswoude/Nykobing gro...