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born and raised in Assen (holland).
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As a child he drew everything that he saw or experienced. His drawing tip saw far more than his eyes could see. And if you asked him where he got his inspiration he answerd "didn't you see it then?"
At the Art Academy and Professional School for Photography he developed his special talents and discovered a love for the art of painting. Everything he entrusted on the canvas had a touch of magical realism. And each new creation fed the fire of its fantasie...
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In contrast to the expectations of everyone, he initially chose a commercial art career. He started to work as an illustrator and developed into an allround professional. His talent for airbrush techniques taught him how to handle colours very effectively, and he was awarded projects from companies at home and abroad.
In 1995 he decided to temper his commercial career. He desired to its roots, the art op painting. The art to express, in which he find the satisfaction by following his inner.
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To obey to that, he proved firstly a postponed study travel to Indonesia and will short afterwards live in Spain, near at the spot where Salvador Dali use to live, the idol of its youth.
In Spain he started with a serial paintings of which you see a selection.
The kind of work which he says; "I crawl this way dense at my subjects, which I can look through at. I almost paint them with my eye-lashes and take along thereby also pictures, which are kept behind my eyes and in my soul. Their emotions and colour."
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Henk Stadman invites you in its magical world and requests you to learn another way of looking at. He receives you on an island, gone from the hard reality. Where the touch of fantasie works as a magic tip and calls marvellous associations. He always does that with art such as art is ment to be, by the centuries gone... Paintings, which offers beauty and perception. But also art, which brings comfort and possibly a little optimism, at moments that the world seems on its emptiest... "
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