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“In every painting I search for simplicity and clearness in my visual language, for the balancing dialogue between a line and the movement of color"

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Working with a same size and the same concept made it logical and possible to work in series. More series got formed simultaneously and developed at the same time, a serie could continue several years. Also after the book ‘horizon’ (2006) I passed on thinking in series. However, I notice that they are moving beyond their contexts by means of cross connections and overlap. I leave the idea of series since January 2010. José Heerkens

1979 - 1984 Koninklijke Academie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.

Educational tours:
Iceland and the Westman Islands, 1980
U.S.A., 1981
Norway, 1982
France - Caves of Lascaux, 1983
Australia and Tasmania, 1992
Germany - Dresden, Jena 1998
Greece - Athens, Delphi, 2001
Italy - Rome, Milan, 2007
Singapore, 2009
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 2009
New York, 2011