Carel Janssen paintings

integratie 60 x 120 cm

Carel Janssen is born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands and lives and works nowadays in Terwolde, a little village in the eastern part of The Netherlands. From 1969 till 1974 he studied in Enschede at the Acadamy for Art and works since as a professional artist. Janssen is a painter of fine arts, who has - in his own way - developed a way of painting unusual situations, which at first site look usual.

e-mail: c.b.m.janssen@gmail.com

lachende zebra 60 x 110

achter het diekhuus 50 x 100 cm

twee zussen 60 x 120

herfst 51 x 67

zwemmende koeien 60 x 120

kilchoan 51 x 67 cm

In his work Janssen creates a gripping perspective in landscapes and town views. According to Janssen the animals in his paintings are synonymous to live. They represent live, but on the other side they refer to dreams. They are meant allegorical and forces spectators to look upwards.

gezicht op twello 61 x 111 cm

koe grijs 90 x 105

zwartbont 38 x 51cm

us mem 65 x 84

Each reality has its own contents, an inner life, an emotional life. It is the real world within me, as I see and experience it, which I represent through my vision and the use of colours.

neushoorn aan zee 58 x 80 cm

Working, making choices and decisions, the great freedom in composing, using of colours is influenced by listening to my own voice and using the experience of many years of painting.

twee koeien op strand 52 x 74 cm

The ordinary reality gives possibilities for an unusual image, through which an alienated effect has been achieved.

scotland 70 x 90 cm

edingburgh 52 x 62

Reality is not existing.
By composing an own vision is arising, which intensifies reality and at the same time deregulates it.

twee zebra's strand 50 x 50

zeehond 50 x 70 cm

Besides by using oil-paint the paintings show the refractoriness that is characteristic for the way Carel Janssen wants to express his way of dealing with materials and ideas.

spoorbrug 65 x 80 cm

zondvloed 64 x 80 cm

The realistic paintings of Janssen distinguish them selves by the humorous aspect of the images. Looking at the paintings for a while it is quite normal seeing cows, zebras and other animals walking on the beach or in the church. They are put in a place where you do not expect them to be, but unless the absurdity it seems quite natural after a while.

molen terwolde 70 x 80 cm

paard aan strand 50 x 50 cm

I do not want to imitate, I do not want to create something that is already existing. I want to make something that only exists in my fantasy, something unique, every painting again.

roosje 50 x 50 cm