Bas Kwakman
literary - painting - drawing
As a traveling poet, writer and visual artist, Bas Kwakman collects events and memories that last, images that overwhelm and concepts that surprise. He then decides whether these lead to text or image. However, it remains close to each other - his prose and poetry are visual and his visual work is poetic and / or narrative.
The visual work appears alongside its own prose (Azul Press and publishing house De Arbeiderspers), as an illustration for (international) publications, such as magazines and literary publications or as an autonomous work at exhibitions.
The drawings with Aspara pencil and / or graphite marker are figurative and narrative and the watercolors (portraits, buildings and landscapes) are mainly made with coffee, a material that has a high transparency due to the absence of pigment. The paintings are slightly more abstract and stand out because of the coarse texture, the limited use of color, the suggestion of space, the rhythm, the repetition and the material expression.
