After more then one year, going to several venues in England and Scotland. The ‘Girl without pearl earring’ has returned safely. The painting was exhibited as part of the BP Portrait award 2019 in the National Portrait Gallery London and Edinburg. It was a very nice experience to be part of. Thanks to the great model @Faredajohnson, who stated her complexion is ‘the lightest ...
Last month I made a special newsletter about making and acquiring a portrait. You can read is here:
I had a nice talk with Anneke Oele in my atelier. About the works I made and several other things. It is a sort of introduction or compact showcase of artist working in this region in the city of Groningen. I am lucky working in an old building from about 1905. You may read it here -if you can read Dutch that is- Bas
expo: Blue at gallery Paterswolde expo: Groninger Notities at gallery Ruigewaert (Corsican Pig can be seen there) Link to interview Artmoire Read it online here!
Click on the picture or link below for the full text. Our next guest (born 1976) is a professional artist living in Groningen, the Netherlands. He creates figurative art, mostly oil paintings. Before this, he studied and worked as a psychologist. Bas’ art allows us to give free rein to our own imagination. His art is capable of enveloping us in a world between what is and what is not. ...
Drents Museum Assen I painted live at the Drents Museum, three days to study on Antonio Mancini’s ‘Lo Studio’. * A short interview about it after the first day on RTV Drenthe radio: (listen from 46′ 40”) here * a short film was made 25-9 about it at my third day there, also by RTV Drenthe: see it here Painting live from a masterpainting in a museum was a ...