Kees te Kolsté (1961 Muiderberg) grew up among artists and attended the Painting School in Zwolle. For someone without an academic education, he has built up an extensive oeuvre that shows many facets. Te Kolsté’s works can be seen as a kind of painted diary. It starts with the surreal images from early childhood. Later on, traces of processing by Picasso and the Cubists can be recognized up to his current paintings. It contains references to the abstract expressionists of North America. Te Kolsté eventually developed a personal style.
For Te Kolsté, painting is like meditating. How the viewer receives it is less important to him than whether he is satisfied with the end result. And what that result will be is not predetermined. Te Kolsté’s abstract work gives the viewer the space to interpret the feelings and desires that the work evokes as they see fit. Nothing is imposed. What Te Kolsté is all about is that both the artist and the viewer engage with the work of art with the same imagination and intensity.
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For Te Kolsté, painting is like meditating. The acrylic (Lascaux) paintings on paper are signed in pencil and the paintings on canvas are signed and dated on the back of the work. Te Kolsté’s colorful works have been given labels. Choose your favorite color for a selection:
