{"id":2442,"date":"2017-12-13T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T08:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depieterproducties.nl\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T13:55:27","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depieterproducties.nl\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Pieter Athmer<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I was born in Copenhagen into a Dutch family as the youngest of five children. Shortly after learning how to walk, we moved to the city of The Hague in the Netherlands where I learned to draw and paint. From the age of thirteen, I went to boarding school in Staffordshire, England. During six years there, I learned to love Shakespeare and look through the lens of a camera. And I grew up, more English than Dutch. At nineteen I moved to Amsterdam and I still live there now.<\/p>\n

I earned a Masters degree in Physics at the University of Amsterdam and immediately after graduating started to retrain as a stage director. Nowhere did I feel more at home than in the theater. For about twenty years, theatre was my world, and I collaborated on many theatrical performances, from opera to cabaret. That’s how I learned to look at people.<\/p>\n

My son was born in 2003, a wonderful new start.<\/p>\n

I started writing, for the stage and later for television. In 2014, I changed course and started focusing entirely on painting.<\/p>\n

It felt like coming home – as if everything I had done in my life before then was the necessary preparation for what I am doing now.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Artist Statement<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Every person deserves, and needs, to be seen. I like to see people, and through my work I try to let them be truly seen.<\/p>\n

There is time in a painting. That time of concentrated attention translates to the vividness of the painting. I paint by observation because I believe in the value of constant change. Not one moment from the single eye of the camera, but hours and hours of experiencing life with my own two moving eyes.<\/p>\n

My style of painting is free and intuitive, yet the results are realistic and my work is easily recognizable.<\/p>\n

My style is not contrived, it is what emerges when I become one with the process, and work without intention.
Real people are not brand new, but used. I find all people fascinating and beautiful. I want to show them in the full glory of their life experience.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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