Friday 17 April 2015

Chris Berens


Chris Berens at his studio.
Chris Berens is not what you call 'a traditional painter'  not in the way he works and not in the way he presents his surreal and visionary ideas. His inspiration is drawn from his inner self, and he is influenced by the old Dutch masters. Not that strange, being of Dutch descend. He evolved from using oil paints into the more liquid medium of the drawing inks. Amanda  Erlanson; "a fluid medium which allowed greater flexibility than oils, as well as spectacular distortion effects reminiscent of the view through an ancient handmade lens."
Amanda Erlanson's description is well illustrated in the video below.


Images from different years are shown in chronological order. Every work is hand painted, as some people wrongly suspected it to be photoshop manipulations.

 2006, Ik wil alleen maar zwemmen

 2008, Broadcast

 2010, Blond in the soul

 2011, How to catch a tidal wave

 2012, Sovereign still

 2013, 0basute

2015, mooncalf

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