Roger Walschots Dutch

Roger Walschots is a Dutch artist working at the intersection of painting, construction, and assemblage. His work centers on connection — between materials, gestures, and traces of time. He paints with acrylic, uses tape and structural compounds — but always on surfaces that carry a past. Old mailbags, textiles, weathered wood, and industrial waste form the canvas on which his work unfolds.

Since graduating from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (1999), Walschots has developed a visual language that is both raw and precise. He builds layers, damages, repairs — sometimes visibly, sometimes just beneath the surface. His works do not begin with a plan, but with actions: cutting, painting, attaching, assembling. They leave behind scars. Traces of a process that is not hidden, but embedded in the final result.

These marks are never purely material. In many ways, his works are portraits of resistance — of friction, of searching, of things that don’t fit but must be held together anyway.

The physical joins between tape and paint become metaphors for human relationships: fragile, intense, imperfect — but essential. What is held together is not always neat or seamless. But it holds. And sometimes, that’s all that matters.

The personal resonates through every part of his process. Not loudly, but unmistakably. His work is concentrated, rhythmic, physical. It builds on what already exists — on traces of time, of others, of use. Perhaps even of himself.

Walschots works outside traditional painting formats, yet remains true to the rhythm of the hand and the logic of his materials. His work doesn’t ask to be explained. It asks to be seen. To be felt. To be connected.