Weijers translates his creativity and visions into three different creative disciplines, photography, painting and music.The paintings by the Dutch painter, are based on a characteristic abstract language of signs and shapes. Within his paintings he reveals a deeper meaning and reflects his view on contemporary issues. By reaching a state of liberation from existing patterns, the interplay of lines is dominated by the metamorphosis which conceals the evaluation of his work from the source. The spectator's fantasy is stimulated by the intuitive and specific combination of colour, material and shape, thus seducing the spectator towards an alternative view on this world. Weijers' personal quest to find the balance between tranquillity and tension initiates his painting process in general. His work is the ultimate medium to communicate with himself and with others.
In painting, his work conveys an intuitive visual language where interlacing signs and shapes combine by relational substance to create a mystical place. Using a refined drawing technique he has successfully liberated the line from traditional pattern. Figures and elements are thus rendered in their natural state, one belonging to the other with consistent symbolism that allow the viewer a ready grasp of their message quality and orientation. Thereby inviting viewers to consume individual components for detail and to bring them together in relation so that a comprehension of the overall image is portrayed. Complementing the subject matter is a specific color palette that effectively stimulates and suggests the desired mood. Collectively his compositions manifest color, shape, material and line into a seductive fantasy of an alternate worldview.
Weijers worked as a
creative director for over 30 years within the international advertising
market, Today his creative and artistic activities are very heterogeneous and
do not consist of merely painting, but involve wider dimensions associated with
graphic design, drawing, painting, curating, photography, music, public
relations, concept & project development, web development and social media
are namely areas in which he fills with meaning by way of distinctly
recognizable messages, expressing his subtle and involved views of the issues
of immediate interest. In this way, he creates an original and distinctly
expressive symbiosis, which he brings to life with different concepts and
projects carried out internationally. Due to his personal and artistic capacity
to communicate and his outstanding organizational skills, he does not present
himself as a solo player, but he frequently involves his artistic colleagues as
well.
As far as the content of the artist’s work is concerned, it is man who is the
focus of his attention and his central idea, while the art form excels in his
most direct and primary reflections transformed into drawing.
His calligraphically elaborated, fluid, refined, mature and determined line
winds to end up forming an originally modified structure of a human figure,
reduced mostly to a head, which is an indispensable and distinctive attribute
of Weijers's artistic opus. It is the most meaningful element with which the
artist visualizes a reasonable reflecting man – a »homo sapiens«, but also a
sensitive man, as is revealed by soft, but taut forms. Continuous lines, tiny
and precise graphisms, impressions of relaxed drawing, as well as thickened
traces acquiring a more pronounced two-dimensional character every now and
then, represent the artist's variable artistic interactions with the painting
surface, originating more or less from a form whose original idea already
involves a circular impression. The author thus confirms his personal penchant
for simplification of form which in fact represents stylization and even
approaches symbolism. This form is undoubtedly characteristic of a sensitive
person and represents to the author an essential element of form building.
Perhaps, in this way, he tends to realize the idea of the French painter and
sculptor Francis Picabia: »Our heads are round so that thought can change
direction«. The form definitely encompasses the complexity of an invisible, but
ongoing activity within a person's inner self; his changing thoughts, a
kaleidoscope of his emotional states of mind and social feelings which fully
objectify the elaboration of a human figure through the author's subjective,
but also generally argumented imaginary world.
Weijers mainly works on three-dimensional shaped wooden panels. The
multi-layered mixed media paintings involve graphite contour lines, traces of
oil pastels, acrylic impastos or glazed covering, and most of all, collage
applications of various materials among which printed media and corrugated
cardboard hold a special place. The colour range is restricted to a well
premeditated selection of colours with which the artist accentuates the meaning
of his works, including some intentional suggestivity and sentimentality.
Within the whole array of different media and ways or approaches to artistic
visualisation, one can sense a special harmony between the expressed and
produced, between the personal and populist, the traditional and modern, the
premeditated and intuitive, but also between the physically perceived and
spiritually sensed.
By way of photography, Weijers is keenly adept at capturing the essence of subject, communicating again his conceptual vision of social and political issues. Various series such as 'Throw away your TV!', 'It's a stars & stripes circus out there', 'Get Connected with Phonarchy', 'Spray-com 2006', 'LA drive-by shooting', 'Target rush-hour' and 'Fixx the game', intend to bring forth underlying sincerity relating to the desired theme. His photographic work is shown in galleries in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States.
As a musician Weijers writes, arranges, produces and releases musical projects using the name Global Frequency. The recordings of these projects are realized in corporation with an international group of musical friends mainly in the Netherlands and the United States. During the past years his musical activities resulted in the release of ten CD/DVD's. The projects “the Break of Dawn“, “D-Mans' left wing & painkiller sessions“, “Trippin' in the temple of doom“, “Get Wet“, “Throw away your TV!“, “Evo-so-lu-tion“, “Sounds of Vision“ and the release of his DVD “Tabasco Tabernacle“ are some examples of his urge to musically express himself.
