Nicolaas Maathuis is a Dutch visual artist and designer. Born on June 23 in Deventer, the Netherlands, he followed a diverse educational and professional path, studying at the conservatory (ArtEZ), the Rietveld Academy, and the University of Amsterdam. His interests have ranged from music and pedagogy to visual art and law before he established himself as a visual artist and designer.
Maathuis works across painting, drawing, ceramics, furniture and applied art, often combining artistic ideas with functional objects. His work is characterised by simplified forms, a strong use of colour, and hand-drawn and handmade elements, with an interest in bringing art into everyday surroundings.
Maathuis lives and works in Buren, the Netherlands.
Nicolaas Maathuis is a Dutch visual artist and designer. Born on June 23 in Deventer, the Netherlands, he followed a diverse educational and professional path, studying at the conservatory (ArtEZ), the Rietveld Academy, and the University of Amsterdam. His interests have ranged from music and pedagogy to visual art and law before he established himself as a visual artist and designer.
Maathuis works across painting, drawing, ceramics, furniture and applied art, often combining artistic ideas with functional objects. His work is characterised by simplified forms, a strong use of colour, and hand-drawn and handmade elements, with an interest in bringing art into everyday surroundings.
Maathuis lives and works in Buren, the Netherlands.
A loose still life built from simplified forms and overlapping areas of colour. Green and blue hues dominate the composition, while visible brushwork gives the work a spontaneous, painterly quality. The forms remain while being reduced to their essential shapes and colour relationships.
A landscape composed of overlapping areas of green, blue, sienna and earthy tones. The reduced forms suggest vegetation, land and distance while leaving the landscape open to interpretation. The restrained palette and broad shapes give the composition a quiet, balanced quality.
An expressive landscape reduced to broad fields of colour and simplified forms. Blue, red, ochre and warm earth tones overlap across the composition, creating a dynamic interplay of colour, depth and movement. The work combines an abstracted approach to landscape with the direct, painterly character of gouache.