Nick oudshoorn / Schilder

Interview with the magazine "Who is Who on the North Sea Jazz Festival" 2002

Exhibition Nick Oudshoorn Paintings / Silkscreens - for 7 years a guest on the North Sea Jazz Festival

Do you feel related to a certain kind of art?

Pop art. In these series jazz, blues and pop music, especially to the people who are the legends, of whom the manifestations are burnt into our memory.

When I look at the paintings and silkscreens, I miss a couple of big names.

I think, in the way you mean, my work will never be complete. There are many forms of music, for which I have the greatest admiration, as you can also admire a juggler or a magician, only for me, this has nothing to do with emotion or being touched, and these are the key-words for my choices.

By the way, on this North Sea Jazz Festival I want to show new paintings and silkscreens side by side with my old work.

Painting or silkscreen?

The silkscreen is the printed version of the painting, made in a small amount by myself (3-80 pieces). All silkscreens are printed by hand, layer after layer and because of that, they all have small differences. After the series are finished, the silksceenframes are destroyed, so that, just like the paintings, there are a number of unique versions, which are more intense in rhythm and colour than the painting.

It is not possible to print extra copies, there is a limited amount of them.

Off course all silkscreens are numbered and signed; they are original pieces of art.

a John Lee Hooker, home on the sofa with the silkscreen, just handed to him by his manager Mike Kappus.
Orange blues in white. John Lee Hooker werd op deze dag 80 jaar. 1997.
a John Lee Hooker with the silkscreen Orange Blues in White, during an interview with the program: ʻuur van de Wolf in 2002ʼ (hour of the Wolf in 2002)
a Ray Charles with the silkscreen (special in braille) I canʼt stop loving you, at the Noth Sea Jazz Festival, after his last show in Holland in 1997.