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Ger Zaagsma, painter of mainly the dutch landscape, very much fancies to show in his watercolours the spectaculair skies, so often found in his dutch environment. From Wormer, where he lives, he usually takes his little boat to get inspired, make drawings and sketches from the Waterland area near his home: the beautiful Wormer- en Jisperveld. In summer he can be found in his french working place, in Saint Gy (Chatin) and from 2006 onwards he regularly exposes his work in Le Morvan, a special National Park nationaal park in Burgundy. In 2005 his first book, about the area where he lives was published in Holland. A book, describing the 13 villages and places forming "The Zaanstreek", with over 100 watercolours of these villages. End 2006 an editor produced a birthday-calender, with 12 Watercolour paintings of Noord-Holland (landscapes and cities). For the commercial art and "loan"Industry (well established in Holland) he makes since January 2009 extreme-sized paintings, extreme for Watercolour that is: 35 x 150 of 60 x 150 cm. To be ordered in this size for interested galeries and through Andre de Goede, 06-54976021 .
NEWS: Ger has been selected by the jury of Namen (Belgium) to participate in 2009 with 2 large works at the most important Biennale of watercolourists of Europe in Namur (be), from April 25. until May 17.