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Rick van Iersel (Maastricht, 1961) Rik van Iersel is self-taught. As a young man he designs posters, draws comics and sketches all day long. He also makes his first large, colorful expressionist paintings. “Nothing belongs to me, everything comes from something or someone” are words of van Iersel, which expresses his fascination for the world around him. He teaches himself a special, personal handwriting, but looks for inspiration to traditional painters with age-old themes. However, Van Iersel eventually breaks through with his early expressionist paintings. He gets a solo exhibition at gallery Willy Schoots in Eindhoven and then has various exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, London, among others. New York and San Francisco.