Eelco Maan VISUAL ARTIST

Serenade / 250 x 120 cm, mixed media on canvas

Lyrical abstract paintings

P O R T F O L I O June 2018


 Journey in the fall / 170 x 70 cm, mixed media on canvas
To me, making art is not a hobby but I wouldn’t call it a job
either. It is work that I have chosen to take upon myself and
that has to be done. It is deeply personal and highly universal
at the same time. To a certain extent, it is what defines me.
It’s like keeping a diary without words. It is a way to get a grip
on life that, at its core, seems to me as elusive as an abstract
painting. It is a way to get access to what I don’t know, to
what I have forgotten. It is a way to make meaning in a
meaningless world. It is a pathway, both towards and from
intuition. Making abstract art is like bringing a vision, laying
dormant in the soul, to the light of day.
I never make sketches. I don’t sit around waiting for brilliant
ideas. Everything happens in the process of painting. I just
begin.
However, odd as it sounds, working on an abstract painting is
a rather precise undertaking. There are certain Do’s and Don’t’s,

so I’ve discovered through the years. There are technical issues
that almost always work, (yet sometimes stunningly fail), there
are technical issues that never work (but sometimes stunningly
do) and there are techniques that might work but which I still
have to discover. There are a thousand ways to start, a million
ways to go on, and zillion ways to finish an abstract painting.
Without some sort of reference, you might easily get lost on the
way.
In the beginning, I mostly worked on paper with gouache,
acrylics and pastels in a semi -figurative style influenced by art-
ists like Klee, Chagall, Hundertwasser, Miro and the Dutch Co-
bra movement. Around 2004 I started working more and more
on canvasses and slowly developed my current lyrical abstract
style. The American expressionist like Pollock, De Kooning and
Rothko have been influences as well as the work of the Dutch
painter Eugene Brands who was for a short time connected to
the Cobra movement.
The basics are acrylics but I use a whole other lot of materials, I
discovered while experimenting through the years, like paper,
sand, modelling pastes, spray paint, gold and silver powders
and sometimes even sticks and pieces of wood. There is some-
thing alchemistic in making paintings.
The way to discover new ground, to keep on going and to im-
prove, is by persistently keep on working from intuition while
building your ever growing technical knowledge. That techni-
cal knowledge (or experience) has nothing to do with logic or
mathematical knowledge. It doesn’t reside in your brain, but
in your hands, your eyes, your whole body, your spirit. It is by
that knowledge you bring precision into the process. Trust it.
Intuition is what gets you on your way, precision is what gets
you to the finish.
Abstract painting is not about ideas. It is about visions, dreams,
misty archetypes, intuitive sensations, sorrow, joy and other
poëtic soul stuff we all share but most of the time can’t express
for the lack of words. In the contradictory combination of
intuition and precision lies the painter’s best chance to silently
whisper from the other side of the veil. Not to tell a story but
to visualise our shared longing for all those elusive things like
harmony, inner peace or turmoil, beauty, rapture and oneness.
There are no shortcuts to acquiring this combination of
intuition and precision. But it will appear, sometime or later,
during the process of painting, by starting afresh, again and
again and again.
Eelco Maan, Basse, Netherlands, june 2018





 Work on show in Galerie 713 / Knokke / Belgium



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 One of two commissioned tryptychs for a beach resort on the Muscat coast of Oman.

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 Commissioned painting for a private collector from France.

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 Origin II I commissioned painting for the new office building of CERN in London / 180 x 120 cm

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Entrance hall of the new office building of CERN in London / Origin II / 180 x 120 cm

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Galerie & Atelier Eelco Maan
U bent van harte welkom om geheel vrijblijvend een kijkje te nemen in Geopend: op afspraak
Galerie & Atelier Maan aan de Basserweg te Basse (5 km van Steenwijk).
Galerie & Atelier Eelco Maan
Al het werk is te koop en/of te huur (huurkoop over een periode van 3 jaar). Eelco Maan beeldend kunstenaar
De huurkoopprijzen bedragen 33 % van het aankoopbedrag per jaar en
een éenmalige bijdrage van 10 euro administratiekosten. Basserweg 6A 8342 TD Basse (Gemeente Steenwijkerland)
Een schilderij van bijvoorbeeld 2100,- euro huurt u voor 700,- euro per jaar Tel: 0521-589822
(58,- euro per maand) en betaalt u in 3 jaar af. Email: ejmaan@xs4all.nl
U kunt ook tussentijds besluiten het schilderij aan te schaffen en dan wordt
de reeds betaalde huurvergoeding op de prijs in mindering gebracht. Bij
grotere formaten kan het werk eventueel bij u thuis bezorgd en opgehan-
gen worden.

De galerie is gesituëerd in een monumentale herenboerderij gelegen

temidden van het golvende houtwallenlandschap van Steenwijkerland en
heeft een vloeroppervlak van zo’n 160 m2, verdeeld over diverse ruimtes.
Vlakbij vindt U het Nationaal Park De Weerribben en prachtige bosgebie-
den als De Woldberg en De Eese. Een mooie gelegenheid om een dagje
natuur met cultuur te combineren.

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 Representation Exhibitions
Claremont Gallery She-Art gallery I Nuenen I Netherlands, 2018
Sevenoaks / UK I www.claremontantiques.com
Whitestone Gallery I Karuizawa I Japan, 2017
Galerie 713 International Art Fair Sevenoaks I UK, 2017
Knokke / Belgium I www.galerie713.be Art Fair Kolner Liste I Keulen I Germany, 2017
Affordable Art Fair Milan I Milaan I Italy, 2017
Galerie Spolnik
La Varenne Saint Hilaire I France Art Fair Asia I I Fukuoka I Japan, 2016
www.galeriespolnik.com Galerie de Paardenstal I Espel (Flevoland), 2016
Kunstbeurs Noord Brabant I Lithoijen, 2016
Galerie Eclat d’Art Tunbridge Wells International Art Fair with Claremont
Colmar / France I www.galerie-eclatdart.com Gallery I Tunbridge Wells I UK, 2016
ART5 Gallery Galerie Thyade I Rotterdam, 2015
Brighton I UK I www.art5gallery.com Hotel Pulitzer, Amsterdam, 2015
Zandvoorts Museum, Zandvoort, 2015
Whitestone Gallery
Karuizawa, Japan I www.whitestone-karuizawa.jp Claremont Gallery I Sevenoaks I Kent I UK, 2014
Galerie Thyade I Rotterdam, 2014
Galerie Sille Galerie Sillekunst I Oudewater, 2014
Oudewater I Netherlands I www.sillekunst.nl Galerie Eclat d’Art I Colmar, France, 2014
Galerie Sous Terre Galerie “In de oude school” I Stroe, 2013
Aalsmeer I Netherlands I www.galerie-sous-terre.nl Kunst in de kop I St. Clemenskerk in Steenwijk, 2013
Galerie Sous Terre I Aalsmeer , 2013
Galerie Thyade Atelierroute Steenwijkerland, 2013
Rotterdam I Netherlands I www.thyade.nl Galerie 713 I Knokke, Belgie, 2013
Oxford Arts Festival Claremont Gallery I Oxford UK
Galerie Tolg’art Galerie de Paardenstal I Espel (Flevoland), 2013
Wierden I Netherlands I www.tolg-art.nl Kunstwerk! in de stellingen I Noordwolde, 2013
Art gallery Radeski I Liege I Belgique, 2013
Galerie De Paardenstal
Espel I Netherlands I www.galeriedepaardenstal.nl Claremont Gallery I Sevenoaks I Kent I UK, 2012
Galerie Sous Terre I Aalsmeer, 2012
Business Art Service Nederland (BAS) Galerie Bruelle I Steenwijk, 2012
(kunstverhuur) Atelierroute Steenwijkerland, 2012
Raamsdonksveer I Netherlands I www.kunst.nl Kleine kerk Steenwijk, 2012
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Diaconessenhuis Meppel, 2012
Galerie Tolg’art I Wierden, 2012
Galerie de Swarte Ram, Doesburg, 2011
Arti 2011, Den Haag, 2011
Art Gallery Radeski, Luik, 2011
Kunst in de Kop, Steenwijk, 2011
Galerie Sous-Terre, Aalsmeer, 2011
Cultuurtempel Haarlem, Haarlem, 2011
Galerie in de Oude School, Stroe, 2011
Galerie Tolg’Art, Wierden, 2011
Galerie Miya, Hellevoetsluis, 2011
Open Art Fair, Utrecht, 2010
Galerie de Vlaming, Den Haag, 2010
Galerie Art in Maupertuus, Geulle, 2010
Kunstsalon Eindhoven, Eindhoven, 2010
Galerie in de Oude School, Stroe, 2009
Galerie De Swarte Ram, Doesburg, 2009
Galerie Thyade, Rotterdam, 2009
Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2008
Galerie & Artotheek de Vlaming, Den Haag, 2008
Galerie Art in Maupertuus, Geulle, mei - juni 2008
Galerie Eikenaar, Burgh Haamstede, 2008
Galerie in de Oude School, Stroe, 2008
Primavera Kunstsalon, Rotterdam Ahoy, februari 2008
Galerie & Artotheek de Vlaming, Zoetermeer,, 2008
KUNST Event Arnhem, 2007
Hoogeland Gebouw, Utrecht, 2007
Galerie & Artotheek de Vlaming, Zoetermeer , 2007
Kunstschouw Westenschouwen, Haamstede, 2007
KUNST Event, Groningen, 2007
Galerie Eikenaar, Burgh Haamstede, 2007
Galerie Pereboom, Oudehorne, 2006
Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, Lustrumexpositie, 2006
Galerie Catharina, Hillegom, 2006
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag, 2006
‘Lourens Pure Luxury’ Event,, Zwolle, 2005
Galerie Beeldkracht, Scheemda, 2005
Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2004
Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2002
Galerie Beeldkracht, Scheemda, 2002
Galerie Erte Art, Echt, 2001
De Bewaerschole, Haamstede, 2001
Galerie Gauguin, Heeze, 2001
Galerie/Atelier Overdevest, Berkel en Rodenrijs, 2001
 Whitestone Gallery, Karuizawa, Japan I Exhibition June / July 2017 I Eelco Maan “In the domain of the soul”
Whitestone Gallery, Karuizawa, Japan I Exhibition June - July 2017 I Eelco Maan “In the domain of the soul”
Galerie De Groene Poort, Middenbeemster, 2000
Galerie Dingen, Vlaardingen, 2000
Galerie Gaugain, Heeze, 2000
Galerie Gaugain, Heeze, 1999
Galerie “De Kunstkelder”, Rotterdam 1997
Pleintheater, Amsterdam, 1995
Iran Brazil Art Gallery, Amsterdam, 1995
Amtec Art, Zevenbergen, 1995
Publications
Embracing the Light, lyrical abstract paintings, Eelco
Maan/Kunstboek, 36 pagina’s FC, 21 x 21 cm, ISBN 978-
90-811204-0-1, 2012
TWAALF, Eelco Maan & Hannah de Leeuwe, Gedichten en
foto’s, 21 x 21 cm, gebonden, 28 pagina’s, ISBN 978-90-
811204-2-5, 2010
Aan de vooravond, Eelco Maan, gedichten, gedichten-
bundel / 130 x 190 mm / 56 pagina’s / ISBN 978-90-484-
1205-1
Het universum in de kunst, boek bij gelijknamige
tentoonstelling, Galerie Thyade, juli 2009
Galerie Gids 2009
Tableau Finearts Magazine, december 2008 (pagina 99)
Catalogus Primavera Kunst- en Antieksalon 2008
Kunstgids Kunstenaars 2008 eerste editie ISBN97-809687-
3-8 (pag 164-165)
Invitation to Art, Kunsttijdschrift, Winter 2006-2007
In het domein van de Ziel, Eelco Maan,
Schilderijen, 2006 / Kunstboek, 52 pagina’s FC, ,
ISBN 90-811204-1-7
Eelco Maan, Schilderijen, 2006/ Flyer/ Uitgave tbv. de Hol-
land Art Fair
Eelco Maan, Schilderijen, 2005 / Brochure, 16 pagina’s FC,
21 x 21 cm
Eelco Maan, Works on paper, 2003 / Brochure, 16 pagina’s
FC, 21 x 21 cm
1001 Reasons to love the earth / The world Art Collec-
tion, Art Book, 2002 , ISBN 90-80-4045-5-1
Eelco Maan, Paintings 1994-2000 / 2000, Brochure , 16
pagina’s FC, 21 x 21 cm
Amtec Art Kunstkalender , 1996
Amtec Art Kunstkalender, 1995
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