Introducing the artist: Henri Vlezenbeek

Henri Vlezenbeek was born on 18 May 1934 in Surabaya on the island Java. Being of Dutch descent, Henri and his family migrated in 1948 to the Netherlands. In his high school years, Henri was introduced to the works of several famous Dutch artists like Rembrandt, Monet, van Gogh and many others. As well as modern artists like the CoBrA group and Picasso. He was deeply captured by their work and as a young man he desired to be an artist himself.

Henri has travelled many times through Europe, to the Ardennes in Belgium, the Toscana in Italy, to Spain and throughout most of France, his favourite European country, and within the Netherlands. Henri’s tropical origin in Indonesia had etched in him an unquenching appreciation for colour and light which he imbeds in his impressionist art.

Inspired by all his travels, Henri expressed his love for nature and bright colours, by painting a vast variety of sceneries of landscapes, trees and flowers. Frequently his images were almost abstract, but always breathtaking and captivating with moving colours that seems to bring his paintings to life.

See Henri’s paintings at: www.movingcolours.com.au