Harm Visser

Harm Visser (b. 1979) is a Dutch painter and sculptor who has been drawing since childhood. Already very early on he was fascinated by animals and nature in general. When he was thirteen years old he started taking courses in drawing and painting. From 1999 - 2001 he attended the Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (Free Academy for Visual Arts) in Nunspeet, a village with a long history of painters. Being a perfectionist Harm Visser looks for the right completion of his work. That can mean a suitable frame, the choice of which is also very important for him. Sometimes, however, that is not enough. He collects materials that could make the perfect finish. An old oak pole of a haystack can become an ideal base for an owl. A dragonfly does not hang on the wall, but floats gracefully on a reed, made of polished stainless steel. Wonder is a key word with many meanings for Harm. “Nature is not only what I see around me. It is an endless world of experience in which we are allowed to ‘be’ and where we are touched by visible and invisible things.” For Harm the concept of ‘miracle’ is the foundation of all that exists. To give expression to the dimensions of colour and depth in a landscape, he speaks of ‘layers’. “There are diverse atmospheres that, in turn, generate our differing experiences of the landscape. We don’t look at a landscape, we look into it.” Harm has exhibited in many renowned galleries since his twentieth year. www.harmvisser.nl