Schetsboek met 50 bladen 1890 - 1946

Here’s a sketchbook with fifty blank leaves by Cornelis Vreedenburgh, made with paper and linen. There’s not much to see on this cover, really. A sort of grubby, greyish, beige linen. It's got that delicious, musty look that only comes with age and use. You know, the kind that whispers, "I've seen things." It's a quiet, unassuming object, but its very plainness invites us to imagine what might be inside. I’m immediately drawn to the smudges and marks, like ghostly echoes of past artistic endeavors. They speak of process, of working and reworking. I love the way the texture of the linen shows through, a subtle reminder of the physicality of the object, like a painting where the canvas texture is part of the image. For me this resonates with the sketchbooks of Cy Twombly. Both artists embrace a sense of openness and chance, finding beauty in the accidental and the incomplete. Art becomes a conversation, an invitation to participate in the ongoing process of seeing and thinking.