Jeff Kowatch USA, b. 1965

Jeff Kowatch, born in California in 1965, moved to Belgium 20 years ago after working in New York for about ten years. He developed a colourist painting marked by the great American abstracts, from Mark Rothko to Brice Marden and, for the technique, by the great Flemish painters, Rembrandt in particular, whose recipes for linseed oil he has reclaimed, which give his painting a particular effect of depth and transparency, typical of the northern glazes. In these oil-stick drawings on Dibond, it is energy that takes precedence over meditation, served by extraordinarily living matter.