Corine Verbeek

Corine Verbeek

In the sixties, my parents moved from catholic Brabant to this deeply protestant peninsula Walcheren. I was born on the Dam of Middelburg in Zeeland…

selfportrait #1
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House near the sea

Being a first child for my parents, they also gifted me two sisters and one brother. We lived in a house near the sea and I went to a small and very pleasant catholic middle school headed by a church-brother. Reading, drawing and playtime were stimulated…

Figur im Raum

Senior school was quite the opposite; protestant with the Bible as the manual for life, and lots of do’s en don’ts. Being an outsider and realizing the impact of presentation I think this period may have shaped my interest in fashion…

figur im raum/selfportrait #3
selfportrait #4

Why so serious?

It has become clear that painting, as practiced traditionally, is what I prefer. Paintings that reflect the reality as we can experience it, and realizing that this is about impossible, have a certain humor and irony, and certainly should not be too serious…

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