Boslandschap 1927

Dick Ket made this drawing of a woodland, using pen and brown ink. I love how the scene feels both intricate and still. Imagine him working slowly, observing the light as it filters through the canopy, noticing the shapes of the trees, the play of shadow and light on the ground. I can feel the artist’s hand moving methodically across the page, building up the image line by line. There's a meditative quality to the mark-making, a rhythm, that invites you to slow down and really see. The texture is wonderful—a dense web of lines, it's as though Ket is feeling his way through the forest, not just looking. You get a sense of the undergrowth, the tangled branches, the density of the woods. He’s not just representing a landscape; he's creating a world, a feeling. It's not unlike the work of other artists who find the sublime in nature, but it is uniquely his own.