Artist’s Comments

It’s important for me to be completely involved
with a painting from beginning to end,
once the creative process has begun it feels like the paints themselves are in control and I’m just an instrument in the execution of the canvas.

Initially I want to surprise the viewer,
then draw there attention to the charm and composition of each piece.
I want to communicate the fun and sometimes lovingly absurd moments that make up our daily lives, something difficult if not impossible to say in words,
a feeling inside that makes you smile.
Texture is also very important, people should feel the need to touch the coloured patterns, to reassure themselves that they are static and not actually going to move and twirl before their eyes. It would be great to develop a technique where the painting could change and rearrange itself slowly while you watch!
I spend a lot of time mixing the pigments and polyvinyls, (using a soup mixer !) to achieve the exact consistency and glossy finish required.
I hope you tune in to the serene chaos and mystical kitsch of my Pictoplastics, because after all ...
Nothing is deeper than superficiality !

Artist Biography

J.D. was born in Brussels - Belgium- in 1960. Following study at the St.Lukas artschool and Les Beaux Arts he started a career as
illustrator, working mainly for comic books.
He published several books in Belgium then moved to Paris where his work was published by the main comic publishers , Heavy Metal, Albin Michel,
Glénat, Dargaud.
A few years later he left France for Portugal, where he painted aquarels? watercolours ?, mainly local landscapes, and had several exhibitions
in Lisbon, Paris and Brussels.
During the 90's he gave more time to his musical talents mainly as guitarist playing in different bands
His 4 solo CD's under the name DIMDIM , on the american Audio Dregs Label (check links) are the highlights of this musical interlude and have
most synergy with his current pictoplastics series ,
as Kandinsky says :
the frontier between music & painting is very thin.