Gust Romijn: honderd jaar

Abstract

As an artist he absorbs everything that happens around him and in his seventy years of working life he goes through all kinds of styles and techniques, always with the same amount of depth and energy. He throws himself into his work. Whether it concerns drawings, graphic work, sculptures or installations, sometimes figurative, usually abstract, to withdraw for a while and to embark on a new adventure with full energy. Life and work are one big journey of discovery for him. For thirty years he has played a colorful role in the Rotterdam art scene, is an artistic designer for Poetry International and Film International Rotterdam, creates various monumental works on commission and holds teaching positions. In 1983 he moves with his partner Marianne Kleijwegt and her children to Dreischor in Zeeland, where he becomes one with Zeeland and commissions the Watersnood Monument and connects his work with the vast and raw landscape of Zeeland.