Biography of Jeroen Hermkens

Jeroen Hermskens (1960) has its training at the Academy of fine arts in Utrecht and Atelier lithografique Champfleury in Paris. Who with the lithographs and paintings by Hermkens, succumbs to the power of the expression, the deliberate, powerful wipe and the subtle color choice. Streets, squares, bridges and boulevards with here and there a hasty passer: that is the world of Jeroen Hermskens. Cities and towns. In every nook and cranny of the world. And then specifically the non-tourist, the forgotten never-discovered neighborhoods. It's clear that people on the city images usually lack. "I myself think that I portray the world as it is created and inhabited by humans. Do you put there folks between soon, the anecdotal and that detracts from the power of expression. I work expressive, make it my own reality from, "said Hermkens. Jeroen Hermskens does his inspiration not only in Netherlands on. three or four times a year he travels to foreign countries including Italy, South France, Yemen and the United States. In Netherlands he regularly draws from getting into the nature new motives: old railway bridges, vacant factories and abandoned quarries. The interaction between his paintings and his chart is clearly visible. Hermkens received in 1996 for his large lithographs the Dutch Chart price.