My Artistic Journey Around The World
For over 30 years Lando Frijns has been and is an airline captain on a widebody aircraft, currently flying the BOEING 747-400.
A disciplined job that is characterized by rational traits: checking, planning, controlling, managing, instructing and checking again. Predominantly fuctions of the left hemisphere of the brain.
While flying around the globe, seeing the world from above with a bird's eye view, he found himself more and more inspired by what he saw and experienced from different cultures.
' It's only when your flying above it, that you realize how incredible the earth really is '
Over the years moments of reflection started to accompany the inspiration. While co-parenting his son and daughter, he even became more aware of true values, soothing his soul.
In 2013 Lando visited a friend in South Africa, the eminent artst Derric van Rensburg who lives and works in Capetown. Derric moved him to action with his words :
'Lando, go and paint the world, show the world you see and share this with other people'.
Ever since that moment Lando has felt the urge to convert his inspiration and creative thoughts to paintings, because he knew there should be a way to combine these two worlds. And not only flying around the globe with thankfull passengers and dedicated crews.
' Teamwork makes the dream work '
By doing so he was able to switch temporarely off his rational left side and opening up the right hemisphere of the brain that holds creativity, imagination, filosofy and feelings.
With his paintings he expresses his creative soul that is fed by different cultures, friends all over the world, stories, nature and city scenes. This way he has managed to find a fulfilling energetic balance between his professonal life and private life.
Inspired by van Rensburg and their shared love for the work of Vincent van Gogh, Lando started painting in 2013.
He is an autodidact artist that pursued and found his own
semi-abstract style. Although the shapes of the subjects always remain recognizeble, his paintings have an abstract foundation, defined by bright colours, powerful yet cheerful lines and shapes.
His goal is to portray the world as colourful as it is and by doing so to make people just as exited about art as he is himself.
In his own words ARTCITED !
' At the end of the day your feet should hurt, your face should be dirty and your eyes should sparkle '
Besides painting Lando is a passionate photographer. While wandering through epic cities he captures special moments, colourful people with his (Iphone) camera. Lando is born and raised in the southern part of the Netherlands, Limburg, but lives for over 21 years in Heemstede, Noord Holland, the Netherlands.