Ronald Zuurmond
I always work from a total picture, the things within which determine what I am going to be doing. A painting has an internal logic, never one imposed from without. Things have a relationship with each other and can swap position within that. The position of one thing will determine the position of another. Whereas if you decide to see something else, then the rest of it will shift in your perception along with that.
Ronald Zuurmond via Museumtijdschrift, 2003
Ronald Zuurmond (1964, the Netherlands) paints still-lifes and landscapes, typically using thick, pasty brush strokes. For him, painting is a prolonged undertaking of scraping, applying paint and scraping it off again — often with rough tools that leave evident traces behind. The world around him is Zuurmond’s artistic inspiration: plants, landscapes and still-lifes are his starting-points, and he lets the paint lead him in the process. Zuurmond first began incorporating figures into his paintings in 2008, and he made explicit reference to art history. Every painting of Zuurmond is a prolonged research and Zuurmond tries to find the right balance in his work.
