Gerard van de Weerd: from landscapes to the ballet

Landscapes, ballet dancers, geisha’s on elephants: the world created by Gerard van de Weerd (1952) is filled with imagination and inventiveness. His oeuvre belongs to the movement of contemporary realism, with traces of both impressionism and expressionism. The artist paints with broad strokes and thick layers of paint. The structure formed by the layers of paint can play just as big a past as the subjects in van de Weerd’s paintings. Gerard van de Weerd graduated at Academie Minerva, where he was taught by Matthijs Röling and other famous northern artists.