Willem Visser - Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse - Sold

The Rotterdam visual artist Willem Visser (1956) made various works of the town of Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse in the French Pyrenees, which is located at the foot of the imposing Cathar castle Peyrepertuse. The red and orange roofs of the village contrast beautifully with the green surroundings. The bright sunlight creates beautiful (drop) shadows. Willem Visser studied at the Rotterdam Academy from 1974 to 1979. Between 1979 and 2002 he regularly exhibited landscapes and cityscapes in the Netherlands and Belgium. He was particularly interested in the polder landscape at that time. His work is in private and public collections in the Netherlands and abroad. Between 2003 and 2017, painting was on the back burner. During this time he worked as a project assistant, designer and webmaster at a non-profit organization. In 2017 he picked up painting again and - in his own words - resumed where he 'left off in 2002'. His main subject is still the landscape, but the emphasis has shifted from the polder landscape to the landscape in the countries around the Mediterranean Sea.