Biography of Harold Scheffer

Harold Scheffer reserves since 1990 working on making art. He has already made in his life. Sitting still is not quite his thing, so if he can be busy, he feels totally in his element. The first period he painted with oil paint and he used Kenya as its subject. He made paintings of people as he saw them, but also masks, shields, carvings and statues. In 1991 he went on vacation to Aruba and was soon seized by the shapes of the woodcarvings that one there made, but certainly by the country. The beautiful colors and natural beauty spoke to him. By the great daylight are the colors so intense. In early 1992, he traveled to Jamaica for the first time. The local population, the rastafarians, impressed him with their huge fireplace oxen. A whole new source of inspiration, which he has used his paintings as the theme for a very long time. Nowadays he uses lots of color in his work in contrast to the former work he has created. ' I am a man of extremes so if I say color, I mean really a lot and bright colors! I use in my work sometimes relief, canvases with layers of paint and also I use regularly, not always, additions such as cardboard, paper, wood, rope, steel, nails and glass. One recurring topic characteristic is "my" bird, colourful and happy! '