13/05/2026
Between the everyday and the dreamlike, the works of Derk Thijs, Axel Linderholm and Jantien Jongsma are shaped by their distinct painting techniques. They capture everyday scenes with a sensitivity that transforms deeply personal moments into something universally recognisable. Their works evoke an immediate sense of closeness and empathy with the people and situations unfolding in their paintings and drawings.
Derk Thijs and Axel Linderholm use rich, intense colour palettes to capture scenes of the ordinary. Linderholm often applies paint thickly and in layers, scratching lines and contours directly into the surface. In works such as Last Dinner, brick walls, tabletops and the two seated figures seem to emerge slowly from the canvas, their textured surfaces giving the scenes a tactile presence. Derk Thijs creates delicate, grainy textures by mixing sand into acrylic or oil paint, allowing thin layers of colour to overlap while preserving subtle shifts in tone.
Jantien Jongsma works with ink and gouache. Her paintings often capture intimate, suspended moments: young women and girls with flowers, seated around tables, or resting together in nature. In Girls at the Waterfront, girls relax at the lakeside on green towels, gazing into the landscape and towards a figure in a rowing boat, all wrapped in vivid magenta and pink tones.
