With fifty-three paintings on paper Ed van der Kooy (The Hague, 1956) reflects on the current juncture, at which a volatile pandemic, racial riots and a persistent climate crisis dominate news reports. Sometimes the pictures are dark and intense. Sometimes they just appear to be idyllic, because there is a snake in the grass, disturbing the dream. In a painterly respect, too, nothing seems to be self-evident.

At his request, his daughter Floortje van der Kooy (The Hague, 1993) writes her refl...

The book Paint to Write consists of two concepts of work by the Dutch painter José Heerkens. The concepts in the book are titled Written Colours and Notation. These series of paintings start from the fundamental concept in her work: putting the colour in the foreground. Colour is a language with many facets and able to create space, light, motion. The energy that comes from the interaction of these colour qualities is translated in her paintings. It is the line that carries the colour and sh...