• 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 >
      • Video - Painting Number Four
    • Painting Number 5 >
      • Video - Painting Number Five
    • Painting Number 6 >
      • Video - Painting Number Six
    • 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
  • Ink drawings - videos
  • Animations
    • INDIFFERENCE II
    • Perpetual motion of no sense
    • IGNORANCE
    • WHITE
    • The incredible imaginary....ß
    • WE DO, WE DO
    • Dance of nonreversible thoughts
    • The Final Return
    • I WANNA GET OUT OF HERE
  • Store
    • Reproduction on archival Hahnemüleh Media
  • Your response
                                 Eric G.C.Weets
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Battlefields  1955

I don’t know who initiate my almost compulsive behavior to draw. It could be my paternal grandmother with whom I stayed often, till I was around three. She painted oil paintings of rocky landscapes.  

On the other side, it could be because of my maternal grandmother, with whom I grew up since I was 3 years old. She used to give me lots of big sheets out of wall paper sample books. The plain backsides of these rough sheets were good enough to keep a 4 year old, calm and busy.

It was not at all my grandmother’s intention to make me an artist, because art and everything that came close to it, was the last thing that interested her. In our house, life looked to depend more on football, cycle racing and such sports. 

I could get as many wall paper sheets as I wanted because it kept me busy, out of her way.  I could draw for hours, sitting at the kitchen table or the antique Singer sewing machine, the top of which could be converted to a small table, when not in use. 

I took the business of drawing very seriously. On top of that I had the ability to transform the fantasies, made up in my mind, into drawings on paper.

I remember that I absorbed all the stories told in my presence by these aged people, gathered in our house, almost every day. These oldies, who, one by one, had been in the First and Second World War, had lots to tell about their war adventures. Families and neighbors on the run from the Germans, horse driven wagons packed with goods and people leaving town for safer places, the bombardments, their lives in the trenches of the Yser in 1914 – 18 etc, etc.

Contrary to my brother Yves behavior, who took off as soon as the story telling sessions began, I squeezed myself between the oldies and sat there with my ears wide open, listening quietly.  I enjoyed it enormously, when the old gang exchanged their experiences. I could listen to these tales for hours and my little brain absorbed it all to the fullest, like a sponge absorbed water. Later, I distilled my own stories out of it.  Consequently, most of the topics in my pencil drawings were battlefields.
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