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Recently, I've started flinging acrylic paint on canvases. For those of you who are curious, here's a selection of stuff I've done that I'm pretty happy with. For the moment I use a very limited palette, with only cadmium red, black, ultramarine, dark purple, copper, gold, and modeling paste to create gloss/matte differentiation and glazes. I am inspired by Japanese art and furniture, early works of Vassily Kandinsky, among other things. Generally I am not bothered by such inhibiting factors as "taste". I've just added the last 9 paintings I did, and also a new medium I'm experimenting with - boxes, jars, and a screen/divider. The hardest part about photographing my stuff is to get the color saturation, which is pretty intense, and the iridescence of the paint-on-texture. Updated 03/03/08 Scroll down for artist bio. BACK
This is a screen/divider that I recently did. It's roughly 7 x 3 feet large, and has two pretty distinct sides. Note the edge detail (below)
About the artist:
Jerome Engelberts was born in the provincial town of Arnhem in the Netherlands. He spent his formative years in Amsterdam, the oldest child in a large Catholic family. “We were always strapped for cash,” he relates, “Too poor for many normal comforts of life, I grew up having to settle for 500 Island Dressing, and heating the house with unnatural gas.”

Violent mood swings that ranged from happy to elated plunged him deeply into the abyss of a normal childhood, and the fact that he was never abused by anyone stifled his growth as an artist. Finally taking matters into his own hands (yuck!) Jerome decided to jumpstart his painting career by buying paint and brushes. The rest, as they say, is history. Now ready to enter the next phase in his artistic career, he put up his ear for auction at Ebay, and went to work from his secluded secret studio in the East Bay area.

His canvases are bold, imaginative and have a limited palette consisting of green, white, Naples yellow, and orange. “I’ve recently discovered that some people who suffer from a rare eye disease actually perceive it as red, gold, black, and purple,” he says, “but with healthy eyes this is not what you’d see at all.

“I paint what I see around me, especially when I open the refrigerator”.

Stay tuned for an exhibit of Jerome’s work in an asylum near you.