Maarten Welbergen

Nocturnes 1

From my early years as an artist I was fascinated by 'nightscenes' like a (lighted) telephone boot or an exit of a cinema. I love the (quiet) atmosphere of night-time where things get lonely. The distant sound of a car or the slamming of a door. Specially I like to look how the light of street lantarns play with the surrounding objects and give them their long shades.It has something magical and it gives me a reflective mood. You could say like the song "A mood indigo" because in the evening the yellow light of day fades away to make place for Indigo-blue of the night (the colour I like the most!) My first inspiration was in my twenties when during my academy-days on the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam I made my first ' Grand Tour' through Italy. When I visited Florence I was struck by a fresco of the early fourteen century painter Taddeo Gaddi in Santa Croce where he painted an 'Annunciation to the shepherds-scene' . 

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Rudice skaly

After being for more then 2 weeks in my beloved Czech-Republic I travelled to Moravsky kras in East-part of Czech. This part I already knew quite well but again I found a very special 'skaly' of white stone with a beautiful cave between the shrubs.

I was excited to be there and paint this pre-historic cave-dwelling. After dropping-off from the bus in Rudice I had to find the path to this 'Skaly' and first one doesn't see anything apart from hills and trees but after taking a sidepath I suddenly descended into the midst of this rockformation.

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Travels with Maarten

Today I arrived again in Czech republic to start my traveling for making pictures. First I will sort-out my materials and paper to be well equiped when I start off! It's always difficult to start again after the winterbreak working in the studio and to change the safe walls of my studio to the 'open air'. So that's why I often make some quick sketches during waiting in the Airport. Also the best way to avoid boredom! ;-)

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21-05-2017

Vandaag gewerkt aan de opbouw van mijn nieuwe site bij Exto! Vanmiddag geef ik de workshop 'Klassiek schilderen' in de wackersacademie in Amsterdam.

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