without words Painting

Rob Vermeer was born in 1944 in Haarlem the Netherlands. His artistic skills were already noticed when he was a boy and therefore he could visit 3 local artists to be inspired by their painting.He started working as a decorator and scene-painter and went on painting harbour and town views.But when Rob Vermeer got interested in oriental philosophies his ideas about life and also his works started changing. After he visited "Stonehenge" in Great Britain where he had been sitting in this megalithic stone circle for one day long his way of painting took a complete new direction. As he says himself: "Something became clear to me sitting there that day... something important. Since then I paint myth. My purpose is to say things that cannot be captured in words. Through images suffused with the power of true myth."