Arjan Janssen

Don’t think, concentrate You might be inclined to say that Arjan Janssen - who was born in Eindhoven in 1965 and lives and works in Breda (in the Netherlands) - creates in his drawings and paintings, his own probable universe. That is probably true for all artists, but in his case the focus on his visual world is actually a quality in itself. After all, his work is both abstract and serene and seems to free itself from the so-called reality around it. In each of his works, he creates his individual aestheticism by using a unique structure of stripes and lines, massive or dynamic compositions. And yet a number of demarcations are firmly embedded in the composition of his visual art. He uses brushstrokes and chalk to create vertical and horizontal lines as well as patterns which repeat themselves at intervals as aligned grids, columns or flexible forms. These are self-imposed boundaries and rules that form an internal framework, constructions that can be free-flowing and can go in any