Jos van den Heuvel

Experimental objects in the natural landscape. The subjects for the paintings arise from impressions from everyday life environment. This environment preferably consists of natural landscapes and sometimes the inevitable urban areas with buildings. The landscapes in the paintings are not bound to a place and are not painted directly from observation. They only exist in the imaginary world of the painting. They are figurative paintings of fictional landscapes formed by soil, water, air and plants. These landscapes contain three-dimensional objects that are sometimes reminiscent of abstract expressionist painting or of land art. Sometimes objects made up of numbers, number combinations or series of randomly chosen numbers are converted to color and shape. As an experiment within the figurative painting, they take the form of indefinable structures, decors and assemblies that stand in the landscape as a kind of three-dimensional artwork. The representation within the two-dimensional figurative painting makes it possible to depict these objects, shapes and figures and to experiment with the effects thereof. In addition, people or animals can usually be seen as extras or as subjects in the landscape.