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Abstract painting
I live and paint in Amsterdam, in the city on the fourth floor. There I do my abstract painting since 1989. It is an intuitive abstract art I do, without ideas before-hand; the picture has to develop itself during the process of painting. So I like to name my art as abstract 'action painting', because that is exactly how it comes in this visual world. Also 'action painting' expresses vey well the dynamic and energetic side of the process of painting.
Intuitive working means to me, I have no image when I start to paint, so the images calls themselves into visual life during the process of painting. Of course I must be open for their calling, and I must keep myself aware of everything what comes up and asks for a place in the picture. This is the side of intuitive abstract painting, the coming beyond me; it is the very dynamic processor, operating in the process of painting. On the other hand I myself must be aware and use my individual history, attitudes, emotions and collected experiences; they form the basis on which I have to make my visual decisions again and again. That is my own responsibility in the creative process. I am not an empty mind; I learned and lived year by year. And yet I must keep my mind open to the new visual sounds coming to me as free birds, as representatives of the unknown; it is a living paradox .......
My painting itself exists in intuition and it speaks only in the language of images and visual imagination, mostly beyond myself. This is the area where I transcend and opens myself for new views which come to me. Painting lies in the twilight between the known and the unknown. I am not mastering the painting; on the other hand, I am not just the victim who just can follows the sound of the universe. It lies between! And the point is: there does not exist a fixed point. That is what art is about, I presume.
Fons Heijnsbroek
(painting at the right: gouache nr. 6.611, made in spring 2008)
