Bio

After selling his company, Bart Jan reached a moment in life where he wanted to express his creativity in a new way. Since he enjoys bringing atmosphere and color into life, painting was a natural choice. With a great passion for cooking, he was already accustomed to creating not only flavorful but also highly colorful compositions on the plate. Cooking, building objects, and painting were always things he loved to do. Together with his brother Wim, he crafted exclusive pavilions, garden houses, tables, cabinets, and designed gardens. Never straightforward, never a repetition of what had been done before, and always with a keen sense of style and a deep awareness of the surrounding environment.

As a self-taught artist with a healthy dose of ADHD, he had to figure everything out on his own to specialize in painting. He quickly realized that his work would be abstract. His art is characterized by the use of bold colors combined with a reflective quality where light is uniquely refracted and mirrored. The visual effects of these colorful, glossy panels create depth and gain a three-dimensional aspect, reminiscent of looking into water. As someone who loves the outdoors, he can often be found in nature, at the beach, or on the water. This is where his deep fascination with the color blue originates. The vast variety of blue shades continues to captivate him endlessly.

Coming from a creative family, Bart Jan was introduced to craftsmanship in various forms from an early age. He sees this phase of his life as a new journey of discovery, where he experiments with design processes, materials, and techniques. Painting allows him to detach from everyday distractions. The process of applying resin is also slow and deliberate, bringing him into a trance-like state and helping him to be fully present in the moment. The viewer is encouraged to adopt the same attentive, perhaps meditative state when observing his work, taking the time to be present and allowing color and form to take effect.