The Art Catalog: "Within the blue" contains some of my paintings made with oil on canvas.
In the Art Catalog I show only the paintings made with oil on canvas.
Because most of my work is made on canvas with oil-paint.
That means that the drawings (pencil and paper) and some sculptures cannot be found in this catalog.
Maybe that is a pity, but since the paintings, made with oil and canvas, are the main part.
I decided to leave the other part out of this Art Catalog.
I can only hope that one enjoys looking into this Art Catalog.
Stories that could be told are often better to hear in silence. Are better just to see.
Like I listen and see better when I am working in silence.
Seeing, looking, trying to keep a balance, working at a painting, a space to be.
WITHIN THE BLUE:
Within the blue, blue sky, within the depth of the ever so blue sea ...
Behind that I can not see, my space is defined by height, width and 'depth'.
My Art begins there.
An open space, to shape ,to enter ,to explore ,to love ,to hold ,to give ,to take ,to caress , to capture ,to see
to define, to touch, to wonder ...
A painting to create with the tools and means I have ... ,
oil ,canvas, pencil, brush, paper, ... geometrical, mathematical structures ...
parallels visualy crossing in infinity defining the limits ... a rainbow of light is going its way about ...
crushing, caressing, capturing space.
The parallels, the geometrical-mathematical structures and the rainbow of light, being equivalent, define the limits.
Define the space which I am trying to create, to visualize to focuse with oil and brush, pencil and paper, defined by the borders of the canvas, ... behind that is the wall ... and another wall ...
Another painting to create, a space ... height, width and 'depth'.
"N' UOVO"
oil on canvas, 120 x 120
2002
© S.C.Jeltema
Symona Colina:
My life began in Ridderkerk, the Netherlands, the 23rd of September 1954. Right now I am living and working in Italy, Roma.
With every new painting I create I am trying to realize a 'certain' quality from which I dare say that I sometimes almost seem to touch this.
To me a 'certain' quality is important, as well as the will and strength to continue, to go 'steady' on.
"Balancing" on the surface of the canvas.
I am just trying to do the best I can, using the best to be durable in time.
Before creating my paintings, oil on canvas, I make several studies with pencil on paper to get the best idea of perspective for the object represented.
Most of my work is oil painted because it is one of the most sensual materials. This prepairing work is an indispensable process to reach, with the use of various colored shades, for the desired final result. The 'errors' of perspective used in many of my paintings are used to highlight to confirm the sense of space in a 'flat'-vieuw. The constructions find their origin in the sensuality of daily articles, ordinary things.
It takes about four to five month to create one painting.
I hope one enjoys looking into this Art Catalogo and of some of the paintings
all made with oil on canvas.
The sea she is leaving shells on the shore.
I pick them up,
One by one.
Fill them with all kinds of thoughts and dreams.
The sea, she is picking them up,
Taking back all the shells she left on the shore,
All at once.
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WITHIN THE BLUE - Art Catalog - Paintings - Oil on Canvas - © S.C.Jeltema
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A hand to give for the hand I give,
Thank you beforehand.