Maurice Braspenning

Dance
2021
acrylic on canvas
210 x 150 cm
Close encounter
2021
acrylic and pencil on paper
30 x 40 cm
All that jazzz
2021
pencil and acryl on canvas
30 x 40 cm
Cool Blue
2021
Pencil on paper
30 x 40 cm
Sun
2021
acryl on canvas
18 x 24 cm
Z.T.
2020
acryl on canvas
40 x 50 cm
Z.T.
2020
Acryl op linnen
40x50 cm
Gallery shot with Ineke Bouwmeesters
2021
acrylic on canvas
120 x 170 cm

Maurice Braspenning (1968) was born in Rotterdam, works and lives in Zoeterwoude. He was educated at the Rijksakademie of visual arts and the Rietveld Academy, both in Amsterdam. His teachers at the Rijksakademie included Luc Tuymans, Bernard Frize and Emo Verkerk. They motivated him to show his own world.

‘Beginning 2018 I got ill, (virus in my brain). A long period of recovery took me for walks in nature thinking about my life and work. Strange enough the illness was a liberation for me. You come to the core of what you really have to do. And I wanted color, space and energy. Nature is the driving force behind everything and became the source of inspiration for my work. By being in nature and watching and experiencing a lot, I save what attracts my attention. These are, for example, leaf structures. Or the moving space created by waving reeds. But above all, the creating energy source that is nature.
When I arrive in my studio I convert this into a painting, and concentrate on how to create space on a flat surface. I have to trust in myself, let go of everything and respond to what arises.’

www.mauricebraspenning.nl
Dance
2021
acrylic on canvas
210 x 150 cm
Close encounter
2021
acrylic and pencil on paper
30 x 40 cm
All that jazzz
2021
pencil and acryl on canvas
30 x 40 cm
Cool Blue
2021
Pencil on paper
30 x 40 cm
Sun
2021
acryl on canvas
18 x 24 cm
Z.T.
2020
acryl on canvas
40 x 50 cm
Z.T.
2020
Acryl op linnen
40x50 cm
Gallery shot with Ineke Bouwmeesters
2021
acrylic on canvas
120 x 170 cm