Gerrit Westerveld

GERRIT WESTERVELD

Born: Aalten, The Netherlands, 1949
Education: Academy for Fine Arts and Design, Arnheim
Exhibitions: since 1970 in many cities in
The Netherlands and abroad

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From 1965 until 1970 Gerrit Westerveld studied
graphic design at the Academy for Fine Arts and Design in Arnheim, where at that time the Bauhaus still exerted a strong influence. His work was also influenced by movements like Pop-art, Zero, German Informal and Abstract Expressionism.

Beside working as a fine artist, Gerrit Westerveld has also been active as a graphic designer. This alliance between fine arts and design seemed to be very fertile. Developments in one discipline worked out to be new impulses in the other discipline.

Beside woodcuts and colour etchings in the past, in recent years he is mainly working on linocuts and silk screens. In his works he combines different basic forms often by exchanging colours. By this way of working, sometimes his “editions” become “mono prints”.

His work can be recognized by his application of basic colours and a simple, strong vocabulary of form. Gerrit Westerveld has also made artist books, leporellos, and print portfolios. Some of his designs have been executed as wall carpets by the Textile Museum at Tilburg, The Netherlands.