'Substance expression' is the translation of paint to another material. It is a term often associated with classical painting in which painters of yesteryear managed to convey beautiful exclusive fabrics such as silk and lace seamlessly.
What painting techniques are behind this, and how can paint imitate another material and make it tangible?
Florens Kool studied Fine Arts at the Minerva Academy Groningen. He works and lives in Deventer. In his work, Florens Kool uses classical painting techniques and skills, such as expression of texture, color and shadow, perspective, and illusionism, to depict everyday settings and objects and place them in an unexpected perspective. He is interested in a form of realism in which contemporary everyday subjects are incorporated into balanced compositions. He strongly emphasizes the treatment of the paint and how it relates to the material it expresses.
Due to its size and precision, his work evokes attentiveness in the viewer. The precise representation of prosaic details brings the viewer into contact with images that usually pass us by in all their banality. In this way, his work gives space to the less sensational aspects of our everyday environment.