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Job Klijn

Job Klijn’s paintings are emotional and atmospheric, smouldering even, with an underlying sense of danger and darkness, while remarkably retaining a sense of light or shelter – a calm region for his figures and the viewer to inhabit.
Job often alludes to an underlying fear and insecurity ruling his work due to his lack of formal training in painting, but also recognises that this plays to the style and final look of his pieces.
Job states that he  “starts his paintings by trying to create a ‘background’, a rough sky, a portrait of ‘weather’ that reflects a mood or sense of moodiness that eventually leads to a more specific idea in what direction to take it”.
“I use as much recycled material as I can and my process involves a lot of adding and subtracting of layers, texture, soil, thinning, scraping, burning, swiping etc, until there is a feeling of emotive ‘rightness’. The result often being a multitude of trial and errors”.
This penchant for brooding turbulence and turmoil as a subject, is in the end, tempered by a residual warmth and richness achieved by the process of the art making. Attentive labour and restoration, building complex layers and beauty.
Sometimes, depending on the works ‘idea’, Job will add a figure.
“I sketch endlessly from collected images that show poses I like to achieve, often mathematically re calculating the proportions of limbs and bodies to marry them together in one final sketch”.
Not all of the ‘moodscapes’ include a human form but most do. Job’s figures exude purposefulness, not seeming overwhelmed in their surrounds. They are clean cut, well dressed, stylish even, clearly comfortable and in control in their environs.
Materials from another past with a promising future!

Job Klijn 
Solo Exhibition

Freedom Envy 734 x 1037 New Photo_edited

Freedom Envy

Mixed Media on Board Unframed

Size: 734 mm wide by 1037 mm high

Status: SOLD

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Hush Now

Mixed Media on Board Framed

Size: 609 mm wide by 904 mm high

Price: $3200

Status: Available

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Clear from city dust

Mixed Media on Board Framed

Size: 1220 mm wide by 745 mm high

Price: $4200

Status: Available

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Footprint

Mixed Media on Board

Size: Change: 1100 mm wide by 1100 mm high

 

Status: SOLD

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The Catch

Mixed Media on Board Framed

Size: Change: 1200 mm wide by 900 mm high

Status: SOLD

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Please Leave a Message

Mixed Media on Board Framed

Size: 680 mm  wide by 930 mm high

Price: $3200

Status: Available

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The part of you that's always true

Mixed Media on Board Framed

Size: 608 mm  wide by 905 mm high

Price: $3200

Status: Available

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