2023
“Following the Covid crisis, the outside world once again began to yield up great and rewarding contacts and impressions. Yet, at the same time, like a blast of wind through an open window, I was feeling the force of the many burgeoning tensions on the world stage. That experience left me with a sense of foreboding. Death and destruction on all sides.”
Art, however, provides comfort and a way out, and it has the final say.
2024
Jan often brings intense memories to life in his work. He lifts a corner of the veil:
“For some time now in my work, I will on occasion fall back on the many impressions instilled in me during my long journey through the Far East in the mid-1970s. The temples in India and Bali, the pagodas in Malaysia, the Golden Temple of the Sikhs in Amritsar, the symmetrical decoration, the floral motifs and figures of deities. Memories of the art that I saw there are once more creating a new source of inspiration.”