Interview with Jan Woodward for the Novelhovel Press, summer 2021 Q. Artist Norman Bluhm described the fusing or hybridisation of works between poet and artist as a “conversation” between disciplines. In what other ways would you describe the relationship between poetry and art and how has this affected your own art, if at all?  A.…

Notes from the studio / Copycats Ever since I became commercially successful as a contemporary lyrical abstract painter (read: I sell enough to make a decent living out of it) I’ve been amazed of how many (so-called) artists have been trying to copy my style and techniques or even copy, almost literally my own paintings.…

Notes from the studio / Daily rituals  “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London I just finished reading a book titled “Daily Rituals / How artists work”, written by Mason Curry, in which the lives and work habits of 161 writers, painters, dancers, musicians and…

“In the studio / Eelco Maan lyrical abstract paintings”, new video on Youtube.

Notes from the studio / Studio visit A while ago I had a studio visit by an elderly woman and her lady friend. She had contacted me before if a certain painting, she had seen years before in one of my galleries in the south of The Netherlands was still available. She had carried the…

Exhibition EELCO MAAN: In the domain of the soul June 21 – July 23, 2017 Whitestone Gallery, Karuizawa, Karuizawa-machi, Kitasaku-gun, Nagano, 389-0102, Japan Could you introduce yourself and your works? Deep down inside I have always known I would become an artist. At the age of thirteen, I discovered the rapture and bliss of poetry, literature, painting…

Notes from the studio / The luminous experience According to Aboriginal myth, the whole Universe was sung into existence during the Dreamtime, the period of creation when the world was a featureless void where ancestral spirits in human and other life forms emerged from the earth and the sky creating all living things and the…

The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them;…

Notes from the studio / Gallery sale I just received an email from one of my galleries in France (Galerie Eclat d’Art) that a painting of mine has been sold. After selling some 250+ paintings over de last 10 years you might think of this as an ordinary, almost commonplace experience. But to me, it still…

New lyrical abstract paintings by Eelco Maan on show at Galerie Thyade / Rotterdam / Netherlands / 11 december 2015 – 16 january 2016 Want to have a look at my latest paintings? From december 11th 2015 until january 16th 2016, you are welcome in the beautiful new location of Gallery Thyade in De Hoogstraat / Rotterdam. Adres Hoogstraat…