Insight | Movement of the Brush | Robert Zandvliet

In the paintings of Robert Zandvliet, the movement of the brush is a visually defining and characteristic element. Robust and transparent, meandering in fluid lines or dancing in short strokes, recurring in a rhythmic pattern or merging to form a tactile painterly surface, the painted stroke in his paintings takes on many appearances. Not only the act of painting, but diverse qualities of paint and canvas, and the decision to use a brush or a roller, are also significant in this respect. It is the very interaction of all these factors that determines the alternating character of the stroke as well as the energy and intensity of the image.

"My brushstroke is my grammar, my language, the foundation of my way of expressing myself."

- Robert Zandvliet, 2008