About Bert Bruins
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1982 - 1986
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
1976 - 1982
Dr Nassau College, Assen, Netherlands
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Event: Open Studio
Dates: 10 Sep 2016 - 24 Sep 2016
I share a space this year in the long established North Devon Art Trek event, where artists open their doors to show their practice. Please find my work at venue 6 in Bideford's historic Butcher's Row/pannier market 13 to 24 September between 10.30 and 15.30.
Event: Solo exhibition
Dates: 8 Aug 2016 - 4 Nov 2016
Like many hospitals, the cottage hospital in Bideford has a changing art program to bring art into its corridors and cheer up the otherwise quite sterile environment. I'm pleased to show some 30 works there from early August 2016 until early November.
Event: Westward Ho! and Bideford Arts Society Summer Exhibition
Dates: 23 Jul 2016 - 3 Sep 2016
Now in it's 94th year, this prestigous exhibition is held in customary venue of the Burton Art Gallery from 23 August until 3 September. Hundreds of works by many artists are on show in two spacious gallery rooms.
Event: Art in the Hut
Dates: 3 Jun 2016 - 10 Jun 2016
Castle Drogo has a rolling program of art exhibitions this season and my artist partner Janis Glover and myself have been selected to exhibit from 3 till 10 June. Some 60 works are for sale, + giclee prints and cards.... Once you've admired our work, you can also go and see the Grayson Perry tapestry in the castle! ;)
Event: Taking the Torridge to Tavistock
Dates: 1 Feb 2015 - 27 Feb 2015
As a member of North Devon's art group Bideford Bay Creatives I am exhibiting at The Wharf Art Centre in Tavistock, West Devon. Some 40 works by 4 artists are on show.
Event: The river Torridge from source to sea
Dates: 29 Jul 2014 - 30 Aug 2014
I will be showing work in various media of the catchment area of the river Torridge in North Devon
Event: The Exe Exhibition
Dates: 4 Sep 2013 - 16 Oct 2013
From moor to sea, paintings, prints, ceramics & glass, inspired by the EXE by 18 Southwest artists
Event: Overview of work
Dates: 23 Jul 2013 - 20 Aug 2013
This art cinema is a great venue for showing work, and I hung abstracts as well as landscapes here during summer 2013
Event: Spring and early Summer
Dates: 24 Mar 2013 - 4 Jun 2013
In tune with the season I showed a selection of my spring themed landscapes here in the cafe that adjoins the Real Food Shop in Exeter.
Event: Landscapes and abstracts
Dates: 20 Jan 2012 - 24 Feb 2011
A winter exhibition of landscapes and abstracts at this local arthouse cinema and performance venue.
Biography
Always keen on drawing, I was given a set of oil paints at the age of 13 and have experimented with many styles and media since. Having given Art College a miss, tempting though it was, I studied politics and social sciences instead, before love "forced" me to move to England after a period of travel in Europe and Asia.
Having
lived in Devon for 30 years, I paint the English landscape that I love, and I attempt to show the intense beauty of nature, our
countryside and townscapes.
Inspired by art schools such as the Scottish colourists (Peploe, Cadell,
Hunter) and the “railway poster” artists such as Richmond and Wilkinson, I work alternately in
oil, ink, watercolour, acrylic, pencil and pastels. I also have a passion for serial abstracts, where I experiment with colour and shape for its own sake, the pure pleasure of off-setting colour and shape. Riley, Vasarely and Escher are influences for these. And who knows, at some point in the future I may find time for more lino-printing and other print forms....
I sell my work through various galleries in
Devon, stage exhibitions, sell worldwide and have shown and sold work in the UK, the Netherlands and the US.
I am an active committee member of several art societies.
