Paul Corvers - The Enclosed Valley (660)

The painting is executed in oil on panel. The work was created in a period in which the landscape was regularly the reason for the paintings. Art historian Ingrid Luycks wrote the following text about the work from this period:
For Paul Corvers (Den Bosch 1953), the landscape, and especially his personal experience of it, is the starting point for a mental quest that translates into paint on canvas. Sometimes the landscape is still clearly recognizable, in other works the demands of the painting means seem to dictate the artistic choices. This results in exciting compositions, in which subtle color choices and the relationship of the color areas to each other only suggest the landscape. Although the paint is applied in an impasto, then again smoothly, there is always a delicate layering. While the formats are usually modest, Corvers' paintings are monumental and at the same time minimalist gems of paint, color and proportion.