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Erik van Ommen (43) is visual artist and bird-watcher. He studied at the Academie Beeldende Kunsten ‘Minerva’ in Groningen (1978-1983). Main subjects: free-hand painting and graphics. He makes oil paintings, water colours, etchings and drawings of objects which feature nature, with a strong preference for birds. He also develops and programmes websites and interactive CD Rom’s. Erik works part-time as a graphic designer and desktop publisher. He had exhibitions in countries like Holland, Great-Britain, Sweden, Germany, and the United States; he published many books with paintings and etchings of birds. Some of this book titles are: ‘Texel, De Hoge Berg en het Lage Land’ (‘Texel, The High Mountain and the Low Land’) and ‘De Vogelwachter – kunstenaar op Rottum’ (The Bird-Watch – Artist on Rottum’). Furthermore he contributed to many radio and television broadcasts.
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Summary of his 12xHolland activities:
- weekly bird field trips ‘Watching and Drawing birds’ on the island of Hirado.
- teaching ‘Birds in Holland’ at several schools.
- slide presentation ‘Birds in Holland’ at the 12xCorner.
- keeping up to date his diary at the Internet.
- daily activity: painting in Hirado and beyond.
- preparing the publication of a small book entitled ‘Vogels in Hirado’ (‘Birds in Hirado’), with his own drawings/paintings and texts.
- he will take shodo lessons (Japanese calligraphy) in Hirado.
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