Eric Schutte

Biotoop 0.1 - 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Forrest Landscape Painting

2025

Eric Schutte is an artist who makes both conceptual and classical work. He studied at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in bachelor of education arts in 2001. Schutte says, “The conceptual work consists of a figurative design in which the non-obvious use of materials is part of the imagination. The concept also plays a major role in classical work, but the material is more traditional. I consider making images as a continuous game and research in which the idea and the design are equal and influence each other”. Schutte has made Acrylic paintings in the snow, outside in the cold and also a number of his works are made of waste plastic. Schutte tells about his painting of a forest made from waste plastic, “We make a waste mountain from nature, I make nature from waste again. The work is called biotope, our living environment. Nature, but at the same time, our environment is plastic. If later excavations are made to this time, the main thing that will be found will be plastic. We live in a plastic age.”