Pit van Loo artwork • painting • for sale Still life in the dunes (Terschelling)

Pit van Loo did not become a painter until he was older. He studied architecture in Delft and settled in Groningen in 1931. He drew and painted in addition to his work as an architect. Around 1954 he became acquainted with the painters of the Groninger Ploeg. Jan Wiegers, in particular, taught him to look consciously and gave him advice. In the early 1960s he painted stylized landscapes and still lifes. In 1970 he decided to devote himself entirely to painting and from 1972 onwards he mainly paints photorealistic landscapes, often with themes: the farmer's ditch, the dunes, the mudflats. He paints a lot on Terschelling and in Groningen and Drenthe.He often looks for something in the landscape that stands out: a traffic sign or, as here, a group of plants that seems to have been composed by a human hand.