Arjan Broersma – Painter

N34 Emmen/Coevorden

Arjan Broersma transformed the environment of the highway N34 into a 19th century situation.
Arjen Boerstra made a sketch proposal to place a huge easel with Broersma's landscape painting at the location.

Utrecht Leidsche Rijn

Arjan Broersma settled on the site of the former Roodnoot farm to immortalize the local situation as a landscape painter.

Craft market Groningen

Arjan Broersma live painting and selling art.

Landscape (oil on canvas) 1987 – Aeroplane and changed date (tipp-ex) added in 1990.

Boerstra starts to paint in his adolescent years. A friend's father is a professional landscape painter and teaches him to work with oil paint. Within a few weeks he is able to paint romantic landscapes. Applying for admission to the art academy he is told that this type of painting is not art. Quite disappointed he goes home, but he is nevertheless accepted at the academy.

Studying art, Boerstra confronts his fellow students with the landscape painting above, having added the aeroplane and the changed date. It becomes a fine discussion piece in a mixture of traditional and modern art education.