Born in 1959. Ad van Riel is a Dutch painter of "paradizes". To be found in privat collections and community collections.
PARADIZES OF PAINT
"I work without a pre-imagined or pre-set idea. In the strokes, the smears and brushing paterns of the paint itself all kind of figures and images reveil themselves. I let them stay or wipe them away. By working this way I experience a close contact between the eye and the paint. The scenes that occur this way, emerge directly from my fantasy and experience".
Older series:
IMAGES OF ORDINATION AND SURVEY - 59 Paintings about the ordination of the world and the human mind (2003-2007).
THE HUMAN CONDITION - 19 Collages about distorted images of man (1998-1999).