John van Orsouw
Abstract Expressionist
John van Orsouw is a self-taught artist, born in 1954,and raised in
the Netherlands. John came to the United States in his early twenties. His first job was working as a chef in The Grand Ol’ Opry Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee; other jobs took him to New Orleans
and throughout the Southern States.
His vibrant acrylic paintings and sculptures are influenced by a number of eclectic sources which include children’s art and colorful toys, and the 20th Century Expressionists.
His works are filled with energy and imagination, a playful stream of consciousness, but not without order and an intuitive sense of balance. When asked, how he goes about planning his painting, John answers, “he doesn’t, he kind of makes it up as he’s going”.
What ever his method, John’s works are full of spontaneous energy,
innocence and decadence, very much reminiscent of the expressionist Bill De Kooning.
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