Sign of the times

In the paintings of Reinoud van Vught, paint and chance are given free rein. Moments at which he pours out the paint and directs the fluid substance merely in a loose, intuitive manner are alternated, however, by more emphatic interventions. Van Vught discerns nature not only in the fragile, precise traces of growth in a plant that he draws, but also in the act of painting itself. He sees similarities between the generative process of a painting and the development of forms in nature.