Derrik Van Nimwegen

Winter Landscape

c. 1989

Derrik Van Nimwegen (American, b. 1969) is a landscape artist based on the west coast. His painting explores his environment through both color and tone - the unique light of the cold months of winter is so essential to Van Nimwegen's work that he only paints plein air during this season. Van Nimwegen is a published poet as well as an accomplished painter. He painted in Europe, extensively in the Tuscany region of Italy, and his native United States, spending much of the winter months painting in the Santa Monica Mountains. Artist’s Statement: As a landscape painter, my intent is to strip away man's imprint and interference with nature and reach for a purer state of existence. My work concentrates on light, palette, and the natural environment. My recent work simplifies the landscape and concentrates on planes that come together to form edges. It is at these edges where life changes occur, or so it seems to me, and my paintings explore these changes. Education: BA, Connecticut Wesleyan Exhibitions: The Adamson-Duvannes Galleries, Los Angeles, CA Armand Hammer Museum Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Art Store Gallery, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA Graphic Arts Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach CA Public Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach, CA The Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA The Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY 72 Market Street, Venice, CA Transamerica Galleries, Los Angeles, CA Walker and Eisen Fine Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA Museums and Public Collections: The Achenbach Collection The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA De Beers Collection, New York, NY Bankers Trust, New York, NY Bristol-Myers, New York, NY Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Irvine, CA