As a Dutch artist, I’ve become known for my abstract oil paintings that are in collections across the globe. I’ve studied, lived and worked in various countries in Europe and the Americas and now live in Haarlem. Throughout my life, I’ve always been occupied with creating the unexpected, changing one’s perspective and communicating through art.
My 5 x 10 feet still life paintings have been transformed into contemporary art that create a wealth of confusion and intentionally dazzles the spectator. My landscapes are painted using a special technique that creates a unique structure in the thick layers as a third dimension of oil paint amplifying the vibrant color scheme. The large scale bird paintings such as ‘The Foreigner’ are thought-provoking, embodying a strong tension between scale, color and composition and showing the influence of the Ohio birds on my work.
My use of color and paint structure is not just a simple way to compose pleasing impressions, but to create a complex language to investigate the depths offered by the deceptively flat plane of the canvas. My Ohio studio was housed in a former classroom of an historic school building downtown Loveland, Ohio. The light and the whole atmosphere make it a fantastic work environment that I’m so happy and fortunate to have worked in.
What can I say more about myself than Karen Bells did in an article in the Cincinnati Business Courier: “In a roomy, sun-drenched upstairs studio, Alice Taminiau paints haunting and provocative works. A huge painting – 99-inches-by-62-inches – leans against a wall; a stark, leafless tree fills most of its space, its branches heavy with black birds. Among them, but seemingly alone, perches a single red bird. The painting, called “The Foreigner,” captures how European native Taminiau can feel. On another wall, an oddly charming painting features a repeating series of unidentifiable shapes. After a visitor compliments the piece, Taminiau offers: “Oh, you know what those are? Those are scans of my knee!” She is, like the Loveland Art Studios on Main itself, full of surprises.”
My 5 x 10 feet still life paintings have been transformed into contemporary art that create a wealth of confusion and intentionally dazzles the spectator. My landscapes are painted using a special technique that creates a unique structure in the thick layers as a third dimension of oil paint amplifying the vibrant color scheme. The large scale bird paintings such as ‘The Foreigner’ are thought-provoking, embodying a strong tension between scale, color and composition and showing the influence of the Ohio birds on my work.
My use of color and paint structure is not just a simple way to compose pleasing impressions, but to create a complex language to investigate the depths offered by the deceptively flat plane of the canvas. My Ohio studio was housed in a former classroom of an historic school building downtown Loveland, Ohio. The light and the whole atmosphere make it a fantastic work environment that I’m so happy and fortunate to have worked in.
What can I say more about myself than Karen Bells did in an article in the Cincinnati Business Courier: “In a roomy, sun-drenched upstairs studio, Alice Taminiau paints haunting and provocative works. A huge painting – 99-inches-by-62-inches – leans against a wall; a stark, leafless tree fills most of its space, its branches heavy with black birds. Among them, but seemingly alone, perches a single red bird. The painting, called “The Foreigner,” captures how European native Taminiau can feel. On another wall, an oddly charming painting features a repeating series of unidentifiable shapes. After a visitor compliments the piece, Taminiau offers: “Oh, you know what those are? Those are scans of my knee!” She is, like the Loveland Art Studios on Main itself, full of surprises.”