Luc Leestemaker — Painting of Space — Abstract Landscape
2 min readNov 21, 2019
“Luc Leestemaker (1957 –, 2012) was an American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Hilversum, the Netherlands.He founded an Amsterdam-based performing arts center; organized the Dutch art collective “Hart Poetry;” and headed Leestemaker & Associates, an Amsterdam-based consulting firm specializing in the arts.“Luc Leestemaker was a painter of space — increasingly, of pure space. Leestemaker anchors us on earth by composing each landscape painting around a horizon line; but for that, we could be adrift in the cosmos. Around that horizon he confabulates an atmosphere of rich, tempered pigment, of nuanced color, of light captured and diffused, of what can finally only be described as breathable paint. “
