Jonathan Koetsier

Jonathan Koetsier was born in South Africa and lived there until he was ten, when his family moved to a small village in Hampshire in the UK. He pursued a BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Art and Design before completing a BA in Drawing and a MA in Illustration (Authorial Practice) at Falmouth University. He subsequently moved with his wife to St. Andrews to be nearer family and because of the beautiful and inspiring location.

“For me, painting from observation is to do with much more than simply representing what I see optically; painting is a matter of expressing how I feel about what I see. In paint I render momentary experiences of observing and responding, continuously amassing marks into a visual statement as a whole. I have recently been finding inspiration for my work within landscape and still life painting, I feel that both of these subjects are useful to me as I develop a personal approach to visual depiction and image making. The major difference between them is to do with the fact that the still life is selected, arranged, and somewhat static, while the landscape is found, framed, and continuously moving.”