| | From 1998 onwards Paul Smulders investigated in his own way the boundaries between the photographic and the painted image.
With the aid of photocopies he transformes photographs into screen patterns. Such “transfers” and painted sections were alternately put on top of another, resulting in layered images.
The introduction of new picture elements and graphic forms finds its counterpart in a renewed passion for painting itself. Although he also uses oil colours and spray paints, the painter uses above all (industrial) acrylic paint.
Most of the time he will paint wet into wet without caring that particular paints react aggressively to one another and the mixture seems to curdle, but he knows how to use these unpredictable reactions to his advantage.
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