Paint and imagination are at the same level to Hjalmar Riemersma. Riemersma rather models the images with his pencil than he traditionally paints them. In this way the paint as a matter is even as important as the moment itself he’s painting, being it a mountain landscape or a train. Riemersma shows that a painting is actually the construction of plastic forms to a tangible image. Because of the tumultuous, pasty surface he emphasises this ´sculptural´ side of the art of painting, though introduces an expressive, abstract element in his well-aimed realism as well. The conscious profusion of paint gives Riemersma the space to optimally make use of his fully distinguished tunes in the colourpalette. With his interpretation of the sliding light in the Swiss mountains, he mixes the qualities of Impressionism and Expressionism to a contemporary image.

Text: Robbert Roos, exhibition: ‘Personal Touch’ Achmea / Interpolis, Zeist 2008