Ben Helmink The Poetic Painter

paintings in oil and acryl with sandstructure

Ibeses alight upon Luxor - oil and graphite on canvas - 214 x 90 cm

Daybreak at Stonehenge - oil with sand on canvas - 100 x 60 cm

NIKES ecstacy on both sides of Pergamom - oil and sand on canvas - triptych - 163 x100 cm

Temporada - oil on canvas - 200 x 50 cm

Hawk alight on Pompeii 163 x 100 cm - oil with sand on canvas

Home Of The Silver wedding - 163 x 100 cm - oil on canvas

Time Astonishment - Forum Trajanum - oil and acryl with sand on canvas - 81 x 81 cm

Antilope-Cerveteri-oil and acryl with sand on canvas- 81 x 81 cm

Falcan sweeps through Tivoli - oil with sand on canvas - 81 x 81 cm

Leopard-Tuscan buccheros-oil an acryl with sand on canvas- 81 x 81 cm

Fennek-Karnak- acryl with sand on canvas- 81 x 81 cm

Attack on the Acropolis-acryl and oil with sand on canvas- 81 x 81 cm

Pompeii-Silver wedding-oil and acryl with sand on canvas-81 x 81 cm -SOLD-

Escape from Cuzco - acryl and oil with sand on canvas - 81 x 81 cm

Eagle on Forum Romanum-oil and acryl with sand on canvas-81 x 81 cm

Daybreak at Poseidon - oil with sand on canvas - 100 x 60 cm

Eagle lands at Poseidon - triptych - oil ith sand on canvas - 184 x 80 cm

Daybreak in Pompeii - oil with sandstructure on canvas - 140 x 140 cm

In 2010 I started a serie of paintings with the theme Presence in History.

Searching the contrasts in static and dynamic, architecture and archeology in opposite of always present motions in human and bestial life, the results show a variation in technique, composition and atmosphere.

fado by Teresa Machado

Teresa Machado wrote this fado after her impression with Eagle Forum Romanum