About the artist

I am Remco, artist name KOTERIS, probably one of the most a-typical artists you will ever come across. Finding my passion for creating art in the second half of my life, after working in the Investment Management Industry for over 25 years, was a big surprise to me. From the posh, money-driven world of investments, markets, and huge finance corporations to a life working in a double garage box, dripping boat paint on canvases on the floor with a wooden stick… it has been an unbelievable and incomprehensible change!

One that has given me very much needed peace of mind and a total seclusion from the hasty, stressful, hectic world I was accustomed to. After I experienced a burn-out due to traumas suffered many years ago, my therapist challenged me to do something completely out-of-the-box.

Painting was as far as I could go, probably, as I have seen myself as anything but an artist throughout my entire (working) life. A successful entrepreneur, a business science major working in the banking and investment industry, travelling the world, eating in fancy restaurants, and living the executive life, I was lightyears away from being an artist, having to rely on nothing but your own imagination, not restricted by economic laws, client wants and needs, or any company driven boundaries.

For the first time in my life, I could not rely on my knowledge and experience, it was just me and the paint, the canvas, a wooden stick normally used to stir paint, and time. Without thinking (how nice) and without any background in art, techniques, or styles, I just started, and I love it. With ideas and creativity flowing from my body while creating works, energy and positivity comes flowing back into me, giving me a feeling of total Zen.

Together with my beautiful wife Tanya, and our wonderful son Misha, we live in my childhood village De Meern. I am very Dutch, quite tall and born in the year 1969.

My favorite artists and inspirators are neo-expressionists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and contemporary Dutch artist Peter Riezebos. I am also a big fan of Pablo Picasso, Karel Appel and the Cobra movement.

I hope you enjoy my work, thank you for visiting the website and acquiring a beautiful work of art.