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What makes my paintings happen to be little stories?

What makes my paintings happen to be little stories?

Feedback from Dirk van der Stouw

1961: When I was a 10 years old boy, I stood in the doorstep of the main room of our rented private holiday house as if I was strucked by lightning: looking at paintings on the walls – cityviews in beautyfull colours of Arabic cities.’This is want I want to make too’: was my first thought…

I started to make my first drawings in that particular holiday. It disappointed me all the time…

16 years old I tried to make my first oil paintings: copying the old masters and learning my self by reading all the books I could find and experimentalize with all my materials and fresh learned techniques. …

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