Ies Jacobs artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Farmers and waitress at the café Bakker

'What inspires me most is the genuineness of people, the natural.' Painter Ies Jacobs could not have described the 'red thread' in his oeuvre more concisely. Café scenes, horse markets, day trippers by the sea, but also the rehearsals of the National Ballet or the Concertgebouw Orchestra: people in motion are central to his work. Strikingly and impressionistically, Jacobs paints lived-in heads, graceful and voluptuous (half) nudes and portraits, a whole life condensed into one painting. But he also makes landscapes and cityscapes. A journalist once praised: 'What a painter! A man who plays with materials, juggles with color and conjures with shapes. All works are full of movement and placed without hesitation.'