Pose (2025) Original Oil Painting by Dick van Dijk

'Portrait' in oil paint (on canvas).
I mainly paint people, not realistic but recognisable. For me, the fun in painting is in the material that often does something I don't expect and I like to make use of that. Each painting is therefore a build-up of ever-new layers and residues of existing layers. Paint is allowed to spill out, skim, mix. Coincidence plays a big role, but I deploy it consciously. I like to constantly put something 'in between' the person depicted and the viewer, to break the built-up image each time. I am still finding found greater freedom in this. (Incidentally, this work is a reworked version of an earlier painting named 'Float', illustrating for me that I am still finding more focus and more skills to capture the image I had in my head).

Materials used:

Oil paint

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 70 x 50 x 2cm (unframed) / 70 x 50cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: People and portraits