• Introduction
  • Paintings 2007-11
    • Note - for collectors and art enthusiasts
    • Painting Number 1 >
      • Work in progress images
      • 90 days being put on up on display on our studio wall.
      • Video - Painting Number One
    • Painting Number 2
    • Painting Number 3
    • Painting Number 4
    • Painting Number 5
    • Painting Number 6
    • Painting Number 7
    • Painting Number 8
    • Painting Number 9
    • Painting Number 10
    • Painting Number 11
    • Painting Number 12
    • Painting Number 13
    • Painting Number 14
    • Painting Number 15
    • Painting number 16
    • Painting Number 17
    • Painting Number 18
    • Painting Number 19
    • Painting Number 20
    • Painting Number 21
    • Painting Number 22 >
      • Painting 22 progress
    • Painting Number 23
  • 2012
    • Indian ink on canvas.
    • 7'x16' in black ink
    • Ink drawings >
      • Large size "compact line" ink drawings.
      • Small size "dots" and "chicken feet" shadow ink drawings
      • Small size "Compact line" ink drawings on paper
      • Large size "dots" and "chicken feet" shadow ink drawings.
      • Thick line ink drawings
      • Single character ink drawings
      • Woobly family characters ink drawings
    • FLASH 2012
    • Our studio 2007-12
  • 2013
    • Post breakfast series 2013. >
      • 1. The Waving Man.
      • 2. Friends Forever.
      • 3. Apple Of Eva.
      • 4. Deep Night Fantasies.
      • 5. Its Hard To Reach The Goal.
      • 6. Looking Around.
      • 7. Contemporary Scream.
      • 8. Reaching Out.
      • 9. Behind His Back.
      • 10. Village rituals.
      • 11. Brain's Breeding Ground.
      • 12. Go With The Flow.
      • 13. Theatrical Perspectives.
      • 14. Implicit Associations
      • 15. Sensations and Perceptions
      • 16. Sitting On Two Chairs.
    • 7'x16' in color
    • Our studio - 2013
    • Oil on canvas - "Works in primaries and the essentials"
    • Ink on canvas
  • Quotes
  • Your response
                                 Eric G.C.Weets
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INTRODUCTION
by Julian Spalding.
British art critic, writer, broadcaster and former curator.

Eric Weets is one of those rare people - a genuine original.  Everyone is unique, just as every ice crystal in a snow drift is unique (unbelievable though it may seem but true) - but few individuals develop an expressive language that is uniquely their own.

Weets paints his 'stream-of-consciousness' or rather 'stream of sub-consciousness' paintings by starting in the top right hand corner (he is left-handed) and working down to the bottom left hand corner - a method used by another 'visionary' painter, the English artist Stanley Spencer. Weets tries not to think too much about what he's doing (a difficult act of mental disrobing), but let's the brush go where it likes.  In this way he unearths memories and dreams, fears and feelings, and mixes them with recent things he's seen in ways that turn the everyday events of life, which we take to be down-to-earth and real, into an indeterminate and continuous flow which is much closer to our real sensations of experience.  

So he paints instinctive portraits of his life. What is remarkable, and bewildering, is that these very large paintings, when finished, have an overall effect, a visual completeness, that suggests that another level of awareness is at work over and above their piecemeal build up.  They are paintings not just of the drift of feelings but of a complete mental make-up. This accounts for their overall knowing 'look', their generosity to the viewer who is invited in to explore the interstices of the artist's mind while he improvises, and at the same time given a wholesome, welcoming embrace.  This subtle multi-layering of awareness and meaning turns what in some hands could be doodles into enthralling works of art.  


Eric Weets was born in Belgium in 1951. Brought up by his maternal grandparents and severely dyslexic, he failed at almost everything in school.  He trained as a diamond cutter, but eked a living doing odd jobs to sustain his growing interest in painting and in jazz and, later, in electronic music. Chronic stage fright put an end to any hopes of a performing career.  Radically pacifist by nature, he became disillusioned with the Hippy movement as it became increasingly commercial. He travelled to the Philippines, eventually settling in India, where he met Filomena Pawar who represents him to a world from which he has increasingly withdrawn.

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