Biography of Douwe Idema

The paintings do not arise from a theory or an individual emotion but through the Act of painting itself. Any act within the canvas is a response to the previous. Sometimes this surgery is intuitive, then again deliberate, but almost always opposite to what is already there. Light is thus opposite dark, bumping into organic shapes geometric and decorative curls disappear under druipers. In this way composes I dont know until the cloth or paper for its sense is full. The work is off because the links between the share a coherent image.