Daan van Doorn

Joined Artfinder: April 2023

Artworks for sale: 38

Netherlands

Updates from Daan van Doorn's studio

  • pigment collection

    pigment collection

    Pigments collected from all over the world to make my own oil , acrylic and tempera paint

    22 April 2023
    pigment collection etc.

    pigment collection etc.

    I often make my own paint

    22 April 2023
    painting the portrait of Philip Glass

    painting the portrait of Philip Glass

    22 April 2023
    In the studio making paint

    In the studio making paint

    I often make my own oil and acrylic paint

    22 April 2023

    the making of Jane Goodall

    Portrait of the English anthropologist, biologist and activist Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall . She is best known for her sixty years of study of the social and family life of chimpanzees. And she is founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the youth program Roots & Shoots with offices in more than thirty countries. “The work she is doing now is extremely important. To continue researching monkeys in the wild, we need to protect their existence and also take care of the local population. Goodall has reached an age where she can no longer go out in the field on her own. She can still give lectures and make the general public aware of the rich emotional life of monkeys, thereby generating empathy and raising money for successful nature conservation projects. That is why she travels around the world three hundred days a year to work for the sustainable protection of great apes and their habitats. She is rarely at home in England. The posing session in London was a great experience for me as an admirer . I portrayed her as a frail but strong woman at a respectable age ( 87 ) She looks at us friendly but also with a look of I warned you . She almost exclusively wears scarves over her clothes. These are gifts to her from the countries she visits. While posing we made a selection from her collection and I found this one to suit her best because of her warm , friendly nature . I didn’t choose the red scarf because of code red for the planet, although she is scared because of the state it is in now. The jewelry refers to Africa , where she spent most of her life . The choice for the Victorian-looking Morris wallpaper was purely a choice of feeling, and gives the painting the atmosphere I was looking for.

    22 April 2023