EVERT VAN BOMMEL
PERSONAL VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
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Evert van Bommel has Dutch origins but currently lives near Malaga in Spain, where he works creating paintings of extraordinary chromatic suggestion.
He is an artist of great experience and remarkable pictorial mastery, who has developed over the years a very clean and personal style, the result of a long interior elaboration.
His works of art have been exhibited in Qatar and Spain. Evert van Bommel graduated from the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague and has received many awards throughout his life. In 2017 he won the Artslant Prize Showcase Winner in Los Angeles in the United States of America, one of his major achievements in his long artistic career marked by international successes.
Evert van Bommel has ranged across countless artistic genres, exploring landscapes, still life, floral motifs, having always been subjugated by the charm of Nature. Nature itself is the undisputed protagonist in his pictorial production with its chameleon-like beauty and its scenarios of great visual impact. Sometimes, observing the works created by van Bommel we immerse ourselves in real introspective landscapes, where the chromatic element takes on an important expressive value.
The color with all its communicative force eludes reality to reach new pictorial horizons, which are reached through a subjective interpretation of the surrounding nature and through chromatic pathos.
Although the author has also investigated the field of sign abstraction, as can be seen in the works entitled “Summertime” and “Have a nice day”, the figurative style remains his strong point in the development of modern painting. In this regard, observe the painting “On the village road”.
The artistic techniques mainly used by him are essentially paintings with extensive use of acrylic colors, but also watercolor on canvas or paper support. Watercolor has often been neglected by contemporary artistic culture, on the contrary Evert van Bommel has rediscovered this technique by transposing it into a very current visual language.
In works of great synthesis such as “Sunset on the beach” or “Vista di Coin” he managed to express the absolute with few, very few brush strokes.
Van Bommel’s expressive research moves between chromatic urgencies and formal needs: color and form are the two pivots of the pictorial investigation of an author who, thanks to his experience, has managed to create a series of works of art of enchanting refinement.
Sabrina Falzone, art critic and historian