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NAIEF as NAIEF should be, simple, colorful and childlike,( h ) honest to look at.
Arie van Leijen was born in Hensbroek in 1921 in the mill of his parents. After a childhood on the mill and hard work on the land, he moved to Nieuwe Niedorp in 1946, where he also earned a living as a miller for more than 30 years. In 1978 he started painting, naive and primitive. Van Leijen is a naive painter as a real naive painter should be. Use of color, simple in form and almost true to nature. His work stands out for its unpretentious sincerity and is a feast for the eyes of the “Naieve collector”