To be able to present to you painters like Simon Balyon is reason enough for this site to exist.
It was probably love at first site.
I was browsing his site site looking for paintings to present here and I was feeling a thrill that I rarely feel these days.
Then, for two weeks, I kept staring at them, trying to write something to match their beauty.
Unfortunately, I was unable to do it, as I will probably be still be unable right now.
I just hope his paintings are going to speak for themselves.
He was born in 1965 near Hague, in Holland. His work is influenced by the impressionstic and romantic schools.
I probably like the most the gloomy air of his paintings, his always dark sky.
A scarce light passes through the clouds to alternate lights and shadows on his meadows, be they green or covered in snow.
Winter or summer, seems like the Dutch sky is always the same, threatening, muddy.
I love his ghostly characters, always with a bent posture, tortured, strained, that are enforcing the message sent by the rough nature.
His vision is there in all his paintings.
You can see it in the modesty of the tulip fields, which could otherwise be a luxurious outburst of colors.
In the poverty of the houses spread here and there over the snowy fields.
In the simple fishing boats that are fading in the mist that makes the sky and the ocean look the same.
I love Simon Balyon with all my heart. I hope you will too.
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To see more, please visit his website, which, by the way is very very well designed.
