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A hattyú a sötét víz felszínét hasítja, szárnyai már felfelé vernek, még mielőtt a körülöttük szálló sugárzás végleg felröppenne. Ebben a műben a felvetés pillanata, az a döntés, hogy a test kinti vízből a levegőbe lép, a fény és a sérülés által van tartva.

A swan breaks the surface of dark water, wings already beating upward before the spray around them has finished flying. In this piece the moment of launch, the instant a body decides to leave the water and become air, is held in place by light and by damage.

No paint. No print. No ink. The wings, the spray, and the deep black around them are scratched into the surface of the acrylic glass, built through controlled surface damage rather than laid down in pigment. The image exists because material was taken away, not because it was added.

The image is always present, not something that appears only under a spotlight. Light does not create the image. It sharpens it. Under direct light the scratches catch and reflect, and the contrast deepens. From another angle the same wings read more quietly, closer to shadow, without ever losing the image.

From across a room the work reads as one clean, dramatic gesture, a single wing beat against black. Move closer and that gesture opens into a field of controlled scratches, each one carrying part of the feather, none of them decorative on its own.

A swan on water carries its own quiet tension. It looks serene until it moves, and then the stillness is revealed as something that was held, not something that was felt. This piece is about that threshold, the surge that was always coiled inside the calm, torn loose in a single beat.

"A Surge Torn From Stillness" continues the Art with Scratch series by Tijs Dragtsma, in which imagery is constructed through controlled surface damage rather than pigment or print. A visual language where damage is not destruction, but structure. With the story behind the series on the About page, and questions always welcome through the contact form.

"Stillness was never empty. It was only waiting."

About Art with Scratch

Art with Scratch is a body of work in which the image is not drawn, but released. Carved line by line into a deep black surface, each work emerges through countless precise scratches that catch the light and bring form out of darkness.

From a distance, the image appears almost photographic. Powerful, recognisable and full of presence. Yet up close, the work dissolves into a dense field of individual marks. Fine, fragile and almost weightless. What seemed solid reveals itself as a delicate web of lines, each one a deliberate gesture, each one essential to the whole.

Light does not create the image. It sharpens it. The black surface absorbs, while the scratched lines reflect. As light shifts across the surface, the image breathes. From one angle the figure stands clear and defined. From another it softens and settles back toward the darkness from which it came, without ever disappearing. Under a focused spotlight, the contrast deepens and the image takes on a sculptural, almost luminous quality.

What makes this medium so compelling is its quiet tension. The act of scratching is direct and irreversible. Every line is a decision that cannot be undone. Yet the result is not harsh. It is intimate, atmospheric and alive with movement. Hardness becomes softness. Destruction becomes creation. Absence becomes presence.

In works such as this portrait, the figure is never fully fixed. Through the interplay of line, light and shadow, the image shifts with perspective and atmosphere. At certain moments, the subject seems to step forward out of the black. At others, it settles back into stillness. It is within that movement, between sharpness and calm, that the work comes alive.

Like all materials touched by time, the surface carries its own quiet life. Each scratch holds a moment, a breath, a gesture. Together they form not just an image, but a presence, one that continues to reveal itself with every change of light.

About the Artist

My name is Tijs Dragtsma, founder of TD Fine Art Studio.

As an artist, I am driven by a constant desire to explore new visual languages. I do not see art as a fixed style, but as an evolving field of discovery where material, structure, light and emotion come together.

My work often begins with a simple question. How can a material speak in a new way. How can hardness become intimacy. How can precision create emotion. That search lies at the heart of everything I create.

Within TD Fine Art Studio, each body of work is approached as its own world, with its own logic, atmosphere and visual identity. Some works are built through rhythm, repetition and structure. Others emerge through absence, shadow, reflection or tension. What connects them is a shared commitment to originality, clarity and emotional presence.

I am fascinated by contrast. Between strength and fragility. Between control and feeling. Between what is visible and what is left open to interpretation. My goal is not simply to make an image, but to create a work that holds attention, invites reflection and continues to reveal itself over time.

TD Fine Art Studio is the space in which these explorations come together. It is not only a studio, but an evolving artistic universe shaped by curiosity, precision and the ambition to create work that feels distinctive, intentional and alive.

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Tijs Dragtsma (1992) - A Surge Torn From Stillness

Vegyes technika - Szignált - 2026

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Tijs Dragtsma, Hollandból bemutatja a „A Surge Torn From Stillness” című vegyes technikával készült 51 × 51 cm-es alkotását, 2026-os évjárat, aláírt, eredeti kiadás, kerettel együtt eladó, kiváló állapotban.

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