Pieter Pander - portrait study

Pieter Pander (1962) studied at the Minerva art academy in Groningen. Pander works in the figurative tradition. But his brushwork, unlike many of his colleagues, is smooth and sketchy. Pander paints quickly and easily. He uses a limited palette of colours; mainly browns, blues, greys and whites. These are the colours that suit him and with which he can convey intimacy and feeling. Pieter Pander is best known as a painter of portraits of people and animals. By choosing an unusual point of view without doing violence to the perspective, he creates a certain alienation that suddenly makes us look at the animal with new eyes.
This smooth and direct oil sketch is an adequate example of this. In posture and glance the portrayed is a presence, but at the same time 'elsewhere'