About Walter Braak

In 2021 Walter Braak (Purmerend 1966) moved from the city of Amsterdam to the countryside of Noordwijk in Groningen, where he spends his days in his studio creating his paintings and perfecting his style.

 

Even when only a child he worked his crayons and pencils, dreaming up cartoons and detailed technical constructions. After attending art classes with Thomas Nagy in 2014 he perfected the skills he picked in his youth with academic knowledge to become a painter of realistic still lifes.

 

He exclusively uses oils on wood panels that every now and then may be substituted by canvas when larger work is involved.

 

Walter regularly paints classic themes applying classic techniques. In recent work however he also  investigates modern subject matter.

 

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'Paintings, stripped of personal emotions, radiating a cool detachment, are the result of clinically precise isolation of fragments from the real world.

 

With the vanishing point way beyond the actual surface of the painting, the laws and rules of hyperrealism are almost casually defied. This particularly affects the series with glass jars with a touch of surrealism.'

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-  Exhibition 'Alledaags ritme'  ('The daily Rhythm')

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