Jan Goris
Lyrical art
My Lyrical abstraction work is a free, emotive, personal composition, often unrelated to objective reality, but with fantastical imaginary.
It comes from Greek, where stories or epics are told or sung with a lyra, so where art is related to music and tales. These paintings take you into fantastical tales.
Jan Goris
Nature & Animals
Numerous, rather simplified shapes of birds and fish appear in my paintings and stained glass. They are not precise silhouettes, but they evoke life, passion, freedom, families, personal and group adventures. Some birds appear while others are disappearing.
The shapes of the horses I paint are less abstract. How to capture movement, emotion, running or jumping?
We can identify with horses, recognize their strength and personality.
Jan Goris
Horses & Birds
Numerous, rather simplified shapes of birds and fish appear in my paintings and stained glass. They are not precise silhouettes, but they evoke life, passion, freedom, families, personal and group adventures. Some birds appear while others are disappearing.
The shapes of the horses I paint are less abstract. How to capture movement, emotion, running or jumping?
We can identify with horses, recognize their strength and personality.
Jan Goris
Female
Strong women coming out with many details painted delicately, defying gravity.
These paintings are asking: what are we loved for? For our values? For our care? For our beauty?
I like to paint women, and express their strength and autonomy, to see them with their own personality and power.
Jan Goris
Sacred Art
Sacred art is pushing me towards more than just painting. It pushes me to become a creator, letting me lead by intuition annd faith.
So is comes this intriguing and mysterious art. There is a sense of ourselves in it, and a sense of approaching the Devine, mixing.
The viewer is invited to a personal journey, and he doesn’t feel alone, traveling in this infinity and wonder.
Jan Goris
Portraits
Painted portraits can add elements or movements or colors to render an atmosphere or a story you don’t see in reality or in a picture.
The painter can put forward a particular detailed part of the personality, and leaving out another one, while adding abstract lyrical elements.
It’s like creating a story which makes the spectator dream or identify in the painting.
The stretched canvas is stapled, like a virgin in a wedding dress. Offering herself to the painter at last. Terpentine and oil, green, satin and blue. Here she is, almost suffocating. Colours are playing and mixing. In a mess, they’re fighting to survive. What movement will be freezing? Which drawings will be left? The artist finds himself looking and observing. He loves what’s happening without him. Oh this passion, all those fights! From deep inside, from far away, appear images, treasures and lights. It’s troubling, it’s joy to see them surge. Coming from where, you don’t know. Crazy ideas, and subtle lines. What the painter had first planned in the painting disappeared. The work of art, unique, autonomous and free, Detached itself from its author. Moved, relaxed at last, she is breathing by herself. Smiling, surprised and in a whisper She’s telling him: I love you. Jan Goris (translation from French)
