Simone Houtman

Simone Houtman is born and based in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. She graduated with a BFA at the Royal Academy of Art (2007) in The Hague, Netherlands.
Her paintings have an atmosphere of suspense. You feel that there is something going on, or something to be happening, but what that is, is not visible. She uses pictures of moments that have an attraction to her: it can be stills, movies, inspired, photographs and images from her head.

The fleetingness of the movies or moments seems to be frozen in the silence of the painting. The following subjects has a place in her work: empty streets, old-fashioned interiors with many views to other rooms.The things you see give you a clue of what’s happening or what you are looking at, but not enough to understand it all. You will see a situation, sometimes with a person in an old-fashioned interior who is doing something indefinable, or we look of a viewpoint outside through a window inside. We do not know where we are and what we see, but we always feel the present of people.

She also love to paint nature. Sometimes she goes to the nature and paint the beautiful landscape around her. Sometimes it has a deeper meaning for her, and other times it is what you see, a beautiful ...

2007: Royal Academy of Art The Hague, (NL) BFA fine art

2021 Plein air, The Hague school day at Pulchri Studio, The Hague (NL)
2021 Plein air, The Hague school day, Galery Rijlaarsdam, Nieuwkoop (NL)
2021 CALL5 !KIJK! Galery Waterbolk, Utrecht (NL)
2019 Plein air, The Hague school day, Galery Rijlaarsdam, Nieuwkoop (NL)
2017 Rabobank, Roelofarendsveen (NL)
2016/2017 groupsexpo 'CALL5' Guadalest (Spain)
2016 open studio days 2016, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2015 'artist in residence' Callosa d'en Sarria (Spain)
2014 'Zomersalon' by galery STA-Art, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2014 'Universum Achterhoek' by Galery Espace Enny, Laag Keppel (NL)
2013 Galery [con]Temporary, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2012 Open studio days in Kunstpunt Rijnstreek, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2012 Exhibiton in the STA-Art gallery, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2012 'new members' in STA-ART Galery, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2012 Schoutenhuis, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2011 Open studio days in Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2011 Exhibition in Da Vinci, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2011 'de vernieuwing' in STA-ART Galery, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2011 ‘zomerkunst’ in 't Reghthuys, Nieuwkoop (NL)
2010 'Enny été', Galery Espace Enny, Laag Keppel (NL)
2009 Open studio/exhibition, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
2008 'Oilpaintin...