Gerrit Neven - The dyke - Sold

Painting: Watercolor Title: “The Dyke” Year: 1993 Condition: In very good condition. Beautiful unique work by this highly valued artist. Framed: in a luxurious aluminum frame with light user damage (see photos). Frame is 2 cm wide and 3 cm high. Image size: 48 cm x 55 cm. Frame size: 78 x 73 cm.
GERRIT NEVEN (1939 - 2022) Gerrit Neven's way of 'watercolouring' can be called unique. The Dutch watercolor tradition mainly prescribes a loose, sketchy working method. Gerrit Neven, on the other hand, aimed for large, clearly outlined, unbroken areas of color, created with premeditation. He mostly worked from photographs. With a soft pencil he drew in clear, simple lines what he saw in his photographs. He strove to simplify everything, to prevent 'getting messed up'. With many perspective flight lines for 'a wide effect'. The drawing formed the skeleton of the artwork. 'I try', Gerrit said in an interview, 'to let the water-soluble watercolor pigments run across the paper like a tightly spun curtain. You can then apply a gradual gradient from one color to the other and from light to dark.' This is how the famous nebulae of 'Gerrit Nevel' were created. Finally, Gerrit drew in the outlines of trees or banks with a Chinese calligraphic brush, while the top layer of watercolor paint was still wet. These lines then half merged with the background. Wandering along the major rivers, Gerrit Neven was always on the hunt for a subject: 'Sometimes you find something, sometimes you don't. Nobody can help you with that.' so he experienced.