The source Painting

I try to paint in the here and now, but nature in its abstraction and patterns are a great source of inspiration. The flat Dutch landscape with its receding horizon is fascinating and a challenge to interpret. This interpretation is hardly ever figurative. The process of painting starts with a picture or shape in my mind's eye, to which a perpetual flow of forms, patterns and rhythms could be added. These are to be destroyed, refined and rebuilt. Till the moment the painting slips away from me and become autonomous. I can't control the painting process anymore and the painting sets it own course. I need this surprise. The interaction between the painting and myself as a spectator, not a maker. Challenging possibilities announcing themselves on their way towards the receding horizon.