Wim Vellekoop - Untitled

Wim Vellekoop was trained at the Applied Arts School in Amsterdam (the predecessor of the Rietveld Academy) by, among others, Prof. Charles Roelofs. After this he worked as a drawing teacher at the Bouman Academy in Amsterdam for more than 35 years. Wim established his name in the seventies with impressive material paintings that were exhibited within and outside the Haarlem region. The many reviews of his work in recent years contain a number of key words, descriptions that keep recurring: dynamic, movement, rhythm, swing, expressionistic, powerful, field of tension and abstract. His work can certainly be called abstract, so Wim does not give titles to his work. Because he explains: the viewer can let his imagination run wild! Wim calls himself a true abstract expressionist, consciously basing himself on the ideas of the art historian Greenberg: abstract expressive imagery and emotionally charged paint treatment. Emotion in color as he describes his work.