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Eelco Maan VISUAL ARTIST

Lyrical abstract paintings

P O R T F O L I O June 2018

Serenade / 250 x 120 cm, mixed media on canvas

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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 art-

ists like Klee, Chagall, Hundertwasser, Miro and the Dutch Co-

bra 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.

Journey in the fall / 170 x 70 cm, mixed media on canvas

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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 some-

thing alchemistic in making paintings.

The way to discover new ground, to keep on going and to im-

prove, is by persistently keep on working from intuition while

building your ever growing technical knowledge. That techni-

cal 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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Work on show in Galerie 713 / Knokke / Belgium

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

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Commissioned painting for a private collector from France.

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

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

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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 opgehan-gen worden.

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 bosgebie-den als De Woldberg en De Eese. Een mooie gelegenheid om een dagje natuur met cultuur te combineren.

Geopend: op afspraak

Galerie & Atelier Eelco MaanEelco Maan beeldend kunstenaar

Basserweg 6A 8342 TD Basse (Gemeente Steenwijkerland)Tel: 0521-589822Email: ejmaan@xs4all.nl

Galerie & Atelier Eelco Maan

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RepResentation

Claremont GallerySevenoaks / UK I www.claremontantiques.com

Galerie 713Knokke / Belgium I www.galerie713.be

Galerie spolnikLa Varenne Saint Hilaire I France www.galeriespolnik.com

Galerie eclat d’artColmar / France I www.galerie-eclatdart.com

aRt5 GalleryBrighton I UK I www.art5gallery.com

Whitestone GalleryKaruizawa, Japan I www.whitestone-karuizawa.jp

Galerie sille Oudewater I Netherlands I www.sillekunst.nl

Galerie sous terreAalsmeer I Netherlands I www.galerie-sous-terre.nl

Galerie thyadeRotterdam I Netherlands I www.thyade.nl

Galerie tolg’artWierden I Netherlands I www.tolg-art.nl

Galerie De paardenstalEspel I Netherlands I www.galeriedepaardenstal.nl

Business art service nederland (BAS)(kunstverhuur)Raamsdonksveer I Netherlands I www.kunst.nl

exhiBitions

She-Art gallery I Nuenen I Netherlands, 2018

Whitestone Gallery I Karuizawa I Japan, 2017International Art Fair Sevenoaks I UK, 2017Art Fair Kolner Liste I Keulen I Germany, 2017Affordable Art Fair Milan I Milaan I Italy, 2017

Art Fair Asia I I Fukuoka I Japan, 2016Galerie de Paardenstal I Espel (Flevoland), 2016Kunstbeurs Noord Brabant I Lithoijen, 2016Tunbridge Wells International Art Fair with Claremont Gallery I Tunbridge Wells I UK, 2016

Galerie Thyade I Rotterdam, 2015Hotel Pulitzer, Amsterdam, 2015Zandvoorts Museum, Zandvoort, 2015

Claremont Gallery I Sevenoaks I Kent I UK, 2014Galerie Thyade I Rotterdam, 2014Galerie Sillekunst I Oudewater, 2014Galerie Eclat d’Art I Colmar, France, 2014

Galerie “In de oude school” I Stroe, 2013Kunst in de kop I St. Clemenskerk in Steenwijk, 2013Galerie Sous Terre I Aalsmeer , 2013Atelierroute Steenwijkerland, 2013Galerie 713 I Knokke, Belgie, 2013Oxford Arts Festival Claremont Gallery I Oxford UKGalerie de Paardenstal I Espel (Flevoland), 2013Kunstwerk! in de stellingen I Noordwolde, 2013Art gallery Radeski I Liege I Belgique, 2013

Claremont Gallery I Sevenoaks I Kent I UK, 2012Galerie Sous Terre I Aalsmeer, 2012Galerie Bruelle I Steenwijk, 2012Atelierroute Steenwijkerland, 2012Kleine kerk Steenwijk, 2012

Diaconessenhuis Meppel, 2012Galerie Tolg’art I Wierden, 2012

Galerie de Swarte Ram, Doesburg, 2011Arti 2011, Den Haag, 2011Art Gallery Radeski, Luik, 2011Kunst in de Kop, Steenwijk, 2011Galerie Sous-Terre, Aalsmeer, 2011Cultuurtempel Haarlem, Haarlem, 2011Galerie in de Oude School, Stroe, 2011Galerie Tolg’Art, Wierden, 2011Galerie Miya, Hellevoetsluis, 2011

Open Art Fair, Utrecht, 2010Galerie de Vlaming, Den Haag, 2010Galerie Art in Maupertuus, Geulle, 2010Kunstsalon Eindhoven, Eindhoven, 2010

Galerie in de Oude School, Stroe, 2009Galerie De Swarte Ram, Doesburg, 2009Galerie Thyade, Rotterdam, 2009

Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2008 Galerie & Artotheek de Vlaming, Den Haag, 2008Galerie Art in Maupertuus, Geulle, mei - juni 2008Galerie Eikenaar, Burgh Haamstede, 2008Galerie in de Oude School, Stroe, 2008Primavera Kunstsalon, Rotterdam Ahoy, februari 2008Galerie & Artotheek de Vlaming, Zoetermeer,, 2008

KUNST Event Arnhem, 2007Hoogeland Gebouw, Utrecht, 2007Galerie & Artotheek de Vlaming, Zoetermeer , 2007Kunstschouw Westenschouwen, Haamstede, 2007KUNST Event, Groningen, 2007Galerie Eikenaar, Burgh Haamstede, 2007

Galerie Pereboom, Oudehorne, 2006Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, Lustrumexpositie, 2006Galerie Catharina, Hillegom, 2006Holland Art Fair, Den Haag, 2006

‘Lourens Pure Luxury’ Event,, Zwolle, 2005Galerie Beeldkracht, Scheemda, 2005

Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2004

Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2002Galerie Beeldkracht, Scheemda, 2002

Galerie Erte Art, Echt, 2001De Bewaerschole, Haamstede, 2001Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2001Galerie/Atelier Overdevest, Berkel en Rodenrijs, 2001

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Galerie De Groene Poort, Middenbeemster, 2000Galerie Dingen, Vlaardingen, 2000Galerie Gaugain, Heeze, 2000

Galerie Gaugain, Heeze, 1999

Galerie “De Kunstkelder”, Rotterdam 1997

Pleintheater, Amsterdam, 1995Iran Brazil Art Gallery, Amsterdam, 1995Amtec Art, Zevenbergen, 1995

puBliCations

Embracing the Light, lyrical abstract paintings, Eelco Maan/Kunstboek, 36 pagina’s FC, 21 x 21 cm, ISBN 978-90-811204-0-1, 2012

TWAALF, Eelco Maan & Hannah de Leeuwe, Gedichten en foto’s, 21 x 21 cm, gebonden, 28 pagina’s, ISBN 978-90-811204-2-5, 2010

Aan de vooravond, Eelco Maan, gedichten, gedichten-bundel / 130 x 190 mm / 56 pagina’s / ISBN 978-90-484-1205-1

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 ISBN97-809687-3-8 (pag 164-165)

Invitation to Art, Kunsttijdschrift, Winter 2006-2007

In het domein van de Ziel, Eelco Maan, Schilderijen, 2006 / Kunstboek, 52 pagina’s FC, , ISBN 90-811204-1-7

Eelco Maan, Schilderijen, 2006/ Flyer/ Uitgave tbv. de Hol-land 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 Collec-tion, Art Book, 2002 , ISBN 90-80-4045-5-1

Eelco Maan, Paintings 1994-2000 / 2000, Brochure , 16 pagina’s FC, 21 x 21 cm

Amtec Art Kunstkalender , 1996

Amtec Art Kunstkalender, 1995

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”