Eelco Maan VISUAL ARTIST

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1 Eelco Maan VISUAL ARTIST Serenade / 250 x 120 cm, mixed media on canvas Lyrical abstract paintings P O R T F O L I O June 2018

2 Journey in the fall / 170 x 70 cm, mixed media on canvas To me, making art is not a hobby but I wouldn t call it a job either. It is work that I have chosen to take upon myself and that has to be done. It is deeply personal and highly universal at the same time. To a certain extent, it is what defines me. It s like keeping a diary without words. It is a way to get a grip on life that, at its core, seems to me as elusive as an abstract painting. It is a way to get access to what I don t know, to what I have forgotten. It is a way to make meaning in a meaningless world. It is a pathway, both towards and from intuition. Making abstract art is like bringing a vision, laying dormant in the soul, to the light of day. I never make sketches. I don t sit around waiting for brilliant ideas. Everything happens in the process of painting. I just begin. However, odd as it sounds, working on an abstract painting is a rather precise undertaking. There are certain Do s and Don t s, so I ve discovered through the years. There are technical issues that almost always work, (yet sometimes stunningly fail), there are technical issues that never work (but sometimes stunningly do) and there are techniques that might work but which I still have to discover. There are a thousand ways to start, a million ways to go on, and zillion ways to finish an abstract painting. Without some sort of reference, you might easily get lost on the way. In the beginning, I mostly worked on paper with gouache, acrylics and pastels in a semi -figurative style influenced by artists like Klee, Chagall, Hundertwasser, Miro and the Dutch Cobra movement. Around 2004 I started working more and more on canvasses and slowly developed my current lyrical abstract style. The American expressionist like Pollock, De Kooning and Rothko have been influences as well as the work of the Dutch painter Eugene Brands who was for a short time connected to the Cobra movement.

3 The basics are acrylics but I use a whole other lot of materials, I discovered while experimenting through the years, like paper, sand, modelling pastes, spray paint, gold and silver powders and sometimes even sticks and pieces of wood. There is something alchemistic in making paintings. The way to discover new ground, to keep on going and to improve, is by persistently keep on working from intuition while building your ever growing technical knowledge. That technical knowledge (or experience) has nothing to do with logic or mathematical knowledge. It doesn t reside in your brain, but in your hands, your eyes, your whole body, your spirit. It is by that knowledge you bring precision into the process. Trust it. Intuition is what gets you on your way, precision is what gets you to the finish. Abstract painting is not about ideas. It is about visions, dreams, misty archetypes, intuitive sensations, sorrow, joy and other poëtic soul stuff we all share but most of the time can t express for the lack of words. In the contradictory combination of intuition and precision lies the painter s best chance to silently whisper from the other side of the veil. Not to tell a story but to visualise our shared longing for all those elusive things like harmony, inner peace or turmoil, beauty, rapture and oneness. There are no shortcuts to acquiring this combination of intuition and precision. But it will appear, sometime or later, during the process of painting, by starting afresh, again and again and again. Eelco Maan, Basse, Netherlands, june 2018

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8 Work on show in Galerie 713 / Knokke / Belgium

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16 16 One of two commissioned tryptychs for a beach resort on the Muscat coast of Oman.

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18 18 Commissioned painting for a private collector from France.

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20 20 Origin II I commissioned painting for the new office building of CERN in London / 180 x 120 cm

21 Entrance hall of the new office building of CERN in London / Origin II / 180 x 120 cm 21

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23 Galerie & Atelier Eelco Maan U bent van harte welkom om geheel vrijblijvend een kijkje te nemen in Galerie & Atelier Maan aan de Basserweg te Basse (5 km van Steenwijk). Al het werk is te koop en/of te huur (huurkoop over een periode van 3 jaar). De huurkoopprijzen bedragen 33 % van het aankoopbedrag per jaar en een éenmalige bijdrage van 10 euro administratiekosten. Een schilderij van bijvoorbeeld 2100,- euro huurt u voor 700,- euro per jaar (58,- euro per maand) en betaalt u in 3 jaar af. U kunt ook tussentijds besluiten het schilderij aan te schaffen en dan wordt de reeds betaalde huurvergoeding op de prijs in mindering gebracht. Bij grotere formaten kan het werk eventueel bij u thuis bezorgd en opgehangen worden. Geopend: op afspraak Galerie & Atelier Eelco Maan Eelco Maan beeldend kunstenaar Basserweg 6A 8342 TD Basse (Gemeente Steenwijkerland) Tel: ejmaan@xs4all.nl De galerie is gesituëerd in een monumentale herenboerderij gelegen temidden van het golvende houtwallenlandschap van Steenwijkerland en heeft een vloeroppervlak van zo n 160 m2, verdeeld over diverse ruimtes. Vlakbij vindt U het Nationaal Park De Weerribben en prachtige bosgebieden als De Woldberg en De Eese. Een mooie gelegenheid om een dagje natuur met cultuur te combineren. 23

24 Representation Claremont Gallery Sevenoaks / UK I Galerie 713 Knokke / Belgium I Galerie Spolnik La Varenne Saint Hilaire I France Galerie Eclat d Art Colmar / France I ART5 Gallery Brighton I UK I Whitestone Gallery Karuizawa, Japan I Galerie Sille Oudewater I Netherlands I Galerie Sous Terre Aalsmeer I Netherlands I Galerie Thyade Rotterdam I Netherlands I Galerie Tolg art Wierden I Netherlands I Galerie De Paardenstal Espel I Netherlands I Business Art Service Nederland (BAS) (kunstverhuur) Raamsdonksveer I Netherlands I Exhibitions She-Art gallery I Nuenen I Netherlands, 2018 Whitestone Gallery I Karuizawa I Japan, 2017 International Art Fair Sevenoaks I UK, 2017 Art Fair Kolner Liste I Keulen I Germany, 2017 Affordable Art Fair Milan I Milaan I Italy, 2017 Art Fair Asia I I Fukuoka I Japan, 2016 Galerie de Paardenstal I Espel (Flevoland), 2016 Kunstbeurs Noord Brabant I Lithoijen, 2016 Tunbridge Wells International Art Fair with Claremont Gallery I Tunbridge Wells I UK, 2016 Galerie Thyade I Rotterdam, 2015 Hotel Pulitzer, Amsterdam, 2015 Zandvoorts Museum, Zandvoort, 2015 Claremont Gallery I Sevenoaks I Kent I UK, 2014 Galerie Thyade I Rotterdam, 2014 Galerie Sillekunst I Oudewater, 2014 Galerie Eclat d Art I Colmar, France, 2014 Galerie In de oude school I Stroe, 2013 Kunst in de kop I St. Clemenskerk in Steenwijk, 2013 Galerie Sous Terre I Aalsmeer, 2013 Atelierroute Steenwijkerland, 2013 Galerie 713 I Knokke, Belgie, 2013 Oxford Arts Festival Claremont Gallery I Oxford UK Galerie de Paardenstal I Espel (Flevoland), 2013 Kunstwerk! in de stellingen I Noordwolde, 2013 Art gallery Radeski I Liege I Belgique, 2013 Claremont Gallery I Sevenoaks I Kent I UK, 2012 Galerie Sous Terre I Aalsmeer, 2012 Galerie Bruelle I Steenwijk, 2012 Atelierroute Steenwijkerland, 2012 Kleine kerk Steenwijk, 2012 Diaconessenhuis Meppel, 2012 Galerie Tolg art I Wierden, 2012 Galerie de Swarte Ram, Doesburg, 2011 Arti 2011, Den Haag, 2011 Art Gallery Radeski, Luik, 2011 Kunst in de Kop, Steenwijk, 2011 Galerie Sous-Terre, Aalsmeer, 2011 Cultuurtempel Haarlem, Haarlem, 2011 Galerie in de Oude School, Stroe, 2011 Galerie Tolg Art, Wierden, 2011 Galerie Miya, Hellevoetsluis, 2011 Open Art Fair, Utrecht, 2010 Galerie de Vlaming, Den Haag, 2010 Galerie Art in Maupertuus, Geulle, 2010 Kunstsalon Eindhoven, Eindhoven, 2010 Galerie in de Oude School, Stroe, 2009 Galerie De Swarte Ram, Doesburg, 2009 Galerie Thyade, Rotterdam, 2009 Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2008 Galerie & Artotheek de Vlaming, Den Haag, 2008 Galerie Art in Maupertuus, Geulle, mei - juni 2008 Galerie Eikenaar, Burgh Haamstede, 2008 Galerie in de Oude School, Stroe, 2008 Primavera Kunstsalon, Rotterdam Ahoy, februari 2008 Galerie & Artotheek de Vlaming, Zoetermeer,, 2008 KUNST Event Arnhem, 2007 Hoogeland Gebouw, Utrecht, 2007 Galerie & Artotheek de Vlaming, Zoetermeer, 2007 Kunstschouw Westenschouwen, Haamstede, 2007 KUNST Event, Groningen, 2007 Galerie Eikenaar, Burgh Haamstede, 2007 Galerie Pereboom, Oudehorne, 2006 Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, Lustrumexpositie, 2006 Galerie Catharina, Hillegom, 2006 Holland Art Fair, Den Haag, 2006 Lourens Pure Luxury Event,, Zwolle, 2005 Galerie Beeldkracht, Scheemda, 2005 Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2004 Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2002 Galerie Beeldkracht, Scheemda, 2002 Galerie Erte Art, Echt, 2001 De Bewaerschole, Haamstede, 2001 Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2001 Galerie/Atelier Overdevest, Berkel en Rodenrijs,

25 Whitestone Gallery, Karuizawa, Japan I Exhibition June / July 2017 I Eelco Maan In the domain of the soul Whitestone Gallery, Karuizawa, Japan I Exhibition June - July 2017 I Eelco Maan In the domain of the soul Galerie De Groene Poort, Middenbeemster, 2000 Galerie Dingen, Vlaardingen, 2000 Galerie Gaugain, Heeze, 2000 Galerie Gaugain, Heeze, 1999 Galerie De Kunstkelder, Rotterdam 1997 Pleintheater, Amsterdam, 1995 Iran Brazil Art Gallery, Amsterdam, 1995 Amtec Art, Zevenbergen, 1995 Publications Embracing the Light, lyrical abstract paintings, Eelco Maan/Kunstboek, 36 pagina s FC, 21 x 21 cm, ISBN , 2012 TWAALF, Eelco Maan & Hannah de Leeuwe, Gedichten en foto s, 21 x 21 cm, gebonden, 28 pagina s, ISBN , 2010 Aan de vooravond, Eelco Maan, gedichten, gedichtenbundel / 130 x 190 mm / 56 pagina s / ISBN Het universum in de kunst, boek bij gelijknamige tentoonstelling, Galerie Thyade, juli 2009 Galerie Gids 2009 Tableau Finearts Magazine, december 2008 (pagina 99) Catalogus Primavera Kunst- en Antieksalon 2008 Kunstgids Kunstenaars 2008 eerste editie ISBN (pag ) Invitation to Art, Kunsttijdschrift, Winter In het domein van de Ziel, Eelco Maan, Schilderijen, 2006 / Kunstboek, 52 pagina s FC,, ISBN Eelco Maan, Schilderijen, 2006/ Flyer/ Uitgave tbv. de Holland Art Fair Eelco Maan, Schilderijen, 2005 / Brochure, 16 pagina s FC, 21 x 21 cm Eelco Maan, Works on paper, 2003 / Brochure, 16 pagina s FC, 21 x 21 cm 1001 Reasons to love the earth / The world Art Collection, Art Book, 2002, ISBN Eelco Maan, Paintings / 2000, Brochure, 16 pagina s FC, 21 x 21 cm Amtec Art Kunstkalender, 1996 Amtec Art Kunstkalender,