De Grote Kerk te Veere 1883 - 1940

Johannes Frederik Engelbert ten Klooster made this drawing, 'De Grote Kerk te Veere', with ink on paper, and it's all about the dance of the hand. The real magic here is in the details. Look at the tree on the left, the way the lines thicken and thin, it's like he's feeling the weight of each branch, the delicacy of each leaf. The texture of the church is amazing. It’s built with these tiny, insistent marks, the artist almost obsessively covering the space. It's like he's not just drawing a building, but building it again, stroke by stroke. The whole thing has this restless energy, it reminds me of some of Philip Guston's nervous mark making. It’s the kind of drawing that reminds you that art is about process, about thinking through doing, and about the joy of getting lost in the act of creation.