Henk Erkelens - Zonder titel

Painting by Henk Erkelens clay/acrylic
Henk Erkelens' paintings acquire their final material shape in a slow process of successive processing. Layer by layer must be built up, the shape is drawn out bit by bit with the palette knife. But only when the mixture of clay, loam, sand, synthetic resin and pigments is dried does that material shape become a fact. His source of inspiration comes from ethnographics, artistic expressions that have to do with the primal experience of man. Now clear, now half faded, we see shapes in his paintings reminiscent of uncovered archaeological finds, art of peoples long dead