Theo den Boon (1941) - Untitled

Theo den Boon

“Painting is like a dream, which gives access to an inner, poetic world,” says the Waddinxveen-based artist Theo den Boon.
Now a person dreams his dreams without interfering. When den Boon paints in his intuitive way, then he consciously at crucial moments sets strong
to lay down color- or form- accents. Furthermore, he lets his compositions on canvas or paper arise without a preexisting plan: “One piece of work grows out of the other. I mainly let myself be guided by my feeling,” explains the artist.
Equally important as the dynamic workflow are the moments when den Boon critically examines his compositions and judges whether there is still enough tension present.
That he then again attacks certain parts of the canvas with new patches of paint or adds provocative accents with the oil-paint stick goes without saying.
Den Boon’s abstract-expressionist approach is best characterized as a
a driven kind of painter's handwriting.
Den Boon, however, has gone further down this road by approaching it in his own way of a
to master visual language.
Sometimes in his works, delicate, transparent shades of blue or yellow dominate, veined with bold strokes and speckles.
Also, Den Boon confronts powerful brushstrokes with boldly flowing pools of paint and white areas, which serve to define the action within the composition.
On another occasion, more pictorial symbols or signals vie for the viewer's attention, from yet another white field with strictly primary, fresh colors: yellow, red and blue.
In practice, these signals seem to create some order, both literally and figuratively, in the chaos invoked. But long before the total ordering becomes visible, den Boon manages to maintain the mystery and the tension in his compositions by simply choosing the right
to channel his painterly energy at that moment, or to call her to a halt.
Thus the spectator is granted, again and again, a fascinating glimpse into a bright dream world of color echoes, the opened private domain of Theo den Boon,
a painter through and through.

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