Jean-Marie van Staveren painter (1946 Rotterdam)

The work is both abstract and figurative. Sources of inspiration are the landscape and human. The paintings are characterized by sincere direct rawness.The abstracted figurative work shows the many sides that life offers. The works are mostly executed in mixed media or olie-/acrylverf.


Biography


Art Academy Amersfoort Utrecht School of the Arts first grade drawing and art history from 1979 to 1984

Utrecht University Faculty of Arts, Art History and Archaeology university foundation course certificate 1993

Teacher training School of the Arts 1986 - 2010


Fundación Cultural Chairman Knecht-Drenth Callosa d'En Sarria (Alicante) Spain 2008 - present


Fundación Cultural Knecht-Drenth (Knecht-Drenth Cultural Foundation) was founded in 1996 by Mrs Knecht-Drenth. Tijmen 2010 † and Helen Knecht Knecht-Drenth years were already engaged in collecting art. Five of their collections: Dutch paintings, European graphics, Dutch glass, traditional Spanish pottery and Chinese porcelain, was donated by the founders of museums in Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. With the establishment of the Foundation Knecht-Drenth couple aims to encourage artistic initiatives. The FCKD does so at a reduced contribution temporary living / workspace / studios available in Dutch and Flemish artists, writers, translators and scholars, in Callosa d'En Sarrià in Alicante


Honors and Awards:

In 1986 she received the BJ Kerkhof Prize for her entire "oeuvre.

In 1999 she received the Prize of the Society Boellaard Kunstliefde Utrecht.


Her work has won public tenders, in corporate collections and private collections. Her work was exhibited in Madrid during the Premio Pentura. In 2000, van Staveren nominated by the Internet platform for lending and selling art for art prize ArtOlive 2000 powered by