Johan van Dreven

A long and winding road, Photographer and digital artist. Art was no part of his growing up, but at high school he developed a talent for working with colors and shapes. In that periode he had a great love for surrealistic landscapes and was inspired by works of Dali and Miro. From unloading trucks, newspaper boy, working in Construction, interim-manager with large firms to …. art. A long and winding road to find out what he really wanted to do and be in life. From digital photography and making adaptations from photo’s he developed into a digital artist. Autodidact again. His latest work is most of all abstract with some small figurative details. The empty p.c. screen is his canvas. Working intuitively, sometime adding photographic elements, his creations develop on the screen. But this period, the most time consuming is changing photos into art, Photoshop is his best friend. His clients loves his digital pencils from photos and also his digital paint at human bodies. Numerous expositions brought him some fame. His work was shown already in several Hilton hotels in Europe (Stockholm, Dusseldorf, Antwerp, Copenhagen) and will be shown this autumn at Art Zurich and the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam, Bruxelles and Paris. Together with his wife, his first photobook (UK/NL) has published in 2018. A story about a young acrobate. They followed her during a year. ISBN NL 978-94-92959-19-5 Jovadre Art – Netherlands; https://www.jovadre.nl Instagram @johanvandreven