Corne Akkers

1969, born in Nijmegen. My work can be seen in many countries all over the world. I employ a variety of styles that all have one thing in common: the ever search for the light on phenomena and all the shadows and light planes they block in. My favorites in doing so are oil paint, dry pastel and graphite pencil. It is not the form or the theme that counts but the way planes of certain tonal quality vary and block in the lights. Colours are relatively unimportant and can take on whatever scheme. It is the tonal quality that is ever present in my work, creating the illusion of depth and mass on a flat 2d-plane. I combine figurative work with the search for abstraction because neither in extremo can provide the desired art statement the public expects from an artist. Besides all that, exaggeration and deviation is the standard and results in a typical use of a strong colour scheme and a hugh tonal bandwith, in order to create art that, when the canvas or paper would be torn into pieces, in essence still would be recognizable.

Self taught and started from age 2.

I do not participate in contests/

I teach 80 students per week (drawing, painting) at Voorburg, Netherlands where I have my second studio.

Exhibitions
2007 Gallery 'Het Licht' - Valkenswaard, Netherlands
2008 Museum Marishuis, - Heumen, Netherlands (solo)
2012 Flowerport - Shanghai, China
2015 Gallery Brugman - Voorburg, Netherlands (solo)
2016 Museum of Contemporary Art, Artplu - Shanghai, China
2017 Galerie R - Rotterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2017 Galerie Ludens - Voorburg, Netherlands

There are so many artists that influenced me and luckily I live in a country that has many museums. I took from flemish primitives like Jan van Eyck the love for detail, from Rembrandt the love to sketch and be stubborn and headstrong in finding your own way, from impressionists the love for the light and from picasso the playful way of finding new forms. I relate to Dali as to surrealism and to Leo Gestel in the way he tried out all the available styles at that moment. There are so many that influenced me.

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