Still life with books, apples, pears and jugs in the artist's studio in Lebbeke (Belgium - East Flanders) Oil paint on cardboard by Pieter Ringoot (1921-2011)
A still life is an artistic composition of motionless or lifeless objects, which have been lit with care. Painting a still life allows a painter to concentrate on the composition and on the use of colour and tonal value, the smooth distinction in colour nuances between the lightest and darkest lot. As an academic painter, Pieter Ringoot's oeuvre includes several such works.
Pieter was not someone who improvised. He did not stand in front of his canvas to paint; just like that. When he started painting he was prepared, he knew what he was going to paint and how he was going to paint it. Pieter knew his work inside out. With him, a work was not a coincidence but one could almost say a birth of a full-term pregnancy.
He was also someone who did not make things simple and easy for himself and was very rarely if not "never" satisfied with his work. He dared to leave work of hours, sometimes of days undone.
Galerie Ringoot is a homage to the work of the Belgian painter Pieter Ringoot (1921 - 2011) and the Dutch illustrator, writer and painter Hans Sturris.
This online art gallery shows a selection of the artists' work, consisting of oil paintings, watercolours, pen drawings, Sketches, ..
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