Sander Reijgers builds up his paintings with endless patience by applying coat after coat of paint to the canvas – always resting to let the layer dry before being able to continue. Colour by colour, cautiously applied with a brush or roller, a painting is created that increasingly tells its own story. Whether or not they overlap, the superimposed colour layers, due to their materiality, will show the traces and reminders of what has previously been put down and is already present. By using different brushes and paint rollers, each of which has its own structure and texture and is hairy or not, paint layers are covered, previous layers are revealed or specific paint residues are pulled to the surface. This gives the painting a skin or a structure, of larger or smaller colour tips and points, like stalactites on the earth’s surface.