Hans Dolieslager - "Giverny".

Hans Dolieslager was born in 1950 in Leiden. When he worked in primary education, he took painting lessons for a number of years at the Ars Aemula Naturea academy in Leiden (1973-1979). In 1976 and 1979 respectively, he obtained his teaching qualifications for drawing and crafts. Since 1982, he has worked as an independent visual artist in Goedereede, with a part-time job as a teacher of visual arts in secondary education until 2000. The main theme in the work of Hans Dolieslager is the landscape of Goeree-Overflakkee. The nature reserve “De Kwade Hoek” and the polders around his hometown of Goedereede have been the subject of his paintings, pastels and graphics for over twenty-five years. Stripped of the anecdote, he does not depict geographically recognizable places, his image of the surrounding landscape emerges. As he describes it himself: “They are a kind of memory images, images that I like to hold on to.” Initially, most of Hans Dolieslager's work was about the nature reserve "De Kwade Hoek", an area that forms the transition between land and water. In recent years, we have mostly seen the cultural landscape with its rows of trees and vast fields with the crops that grow at the head of the island. The high horizon increasingly draws attention to the foreground, which is built up from horizontal bands of merging shades or contrasting colours. The rows of trees on the border between land and sky become vaguer and groups of trees appear, spread out across the land. Due to the very large format and glass plate, sending is actually not an option.