Hennie Huijgens

In addition to his work as an artist, Hennie Huijgens has been active for many years as a scientific researcher and organizational consultant. He received his PhD in computer sciences from TU Delft in 2018. He therefore likes to approach his art projects in a professional and investigative way, in which he studies a work of art or an idea for a series of paintings from different angles from the perspective of triangulation. He therefore likes to call himself an 'investigative artist'.

"I love paint, color and complex stories, whether they are true or not."

Hennie Huijgens (Alphen aan den Rijn, November 11, 1957) is a Dutch-born artist. He lives and works in Amsterdam since the 1980s. As a true colorist, he has a preference for the material side of painting: He loves paint, color, and fiddling with canvases and mediums. He usually works on larger canvases and uses mainly acrylic paint, trying to create effects such as glazing, gloss, transparency and thick surface structures with all kinds of mediums and gels. His role models in modern and contemporary art are the ‘real painting heroes’ from abstract expressionism, but he also loves the more figurative post-expressionists and pop-art painters. From his graphic background, he finds the prints ('druksels') of Hendrik Werkman inspiring for the use of text and geographical forms in his work. More recently, he finds inspiration in the work of contemporary landscape and portrait painters and in the idea of ​​art as a total concept in which multiple disciplines such as slideshows, music, voice-overs, text, poetry, and archive material come together. In his recent work, he regularly investigates and comments on the use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence to explore and challenge creativity and ideation.