‘2007: Personally, the informal artists and their work really appeal to me. I love the material, the marks, the disorder, the coincidental and intuition of it all, the graphic art within.’
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Ben Vollers

Ben Vollers  (born in 1947) is a Dutch artist who has been creating abstract paintings on both canvas and paper since 1988.
Classic antiquity plays an important role in his art  as does European history. The titles of his work very often refer to this. He sees his work as ‘visual footprints of the past’ as it lives and relives in his imagination. His art is in no way an illustration of history or historic stories but rather he moves the past into a present day form of abstract art.

 

Colors
Ben Vollers paints with strong full brush strokes, creating robust planes of color. The drawing in his paintings takes place in thin intuitive lines that move over and between these planes of color as a necessary light and rhythmic opposition. There is a great deal of atmosphere in his work, which is evoked by the colored planes and their resonance.

 

Free association
Vollers paints spontaneously and without any preconceived idea. His abstract paintings develop on the spot, with free association of color, line and form. His physical impulse is particularly apparent in his ‘graffiti type’ lines that move carelessly through the large forms, sometimes they form the start of the painting and sometimes they are the finishing touch.

 

A Dutch artist
There is a clear Dutch influence in Ben Vollers’ art, an atmospheric content that is definitely from the Dutch skies and the water in and around Amsterdam. This atmosphere softens the large, robust planes of color in his work and gives a depth and added layers to the painting that Ben Vollers demands of himself.

Besides his individual work, Ben Vollers has been painting with Fons Heijnsbroek since 2006 – they produced the Benfo paintings. Large, expressive abstract canvases painted simultaneously on the spot.