Painting is for me playing with paint. I don't seek a style or end goal. I usually start impulsively, letting myself be guided by my imagination or the 'now'... which means reacting directly without further thoughts.

Every canvas is a new game where experience or knowledge plays no role. I don't give the canvases a name, so it remains purely visual language. I do think that 'nature' unconsciously plays a role. Stones, rocks, landslides, water, seas, skies flash past my retina.

I am self-taught and know little about art, style, or technique. But to be honest, I don't want to know anything about it so that I know it comes from within myself. I exclusively work with acrylic paint and often with a palette knife. With many canvases, I spend months, they undergo a kind of 'organic' growth. Setting up, changing, looking long, sanding away, scraping off, smoothing out, setting up again, and so on. Ultimately, a beautiful tension arises for me between movement and stillness, usually in more earthy colors.

What fascinates me when you enter a painting is that you entertain yourself in a stream of unexpected shades of colors, lines, and structures. Much seems to 'collide' but there is still a kind of 'flow' of cause and effect in it.

- Ronald de Jong