Jorris Verboon is an abstract painter whose work delves into the elusive, often chaotic landscape of human thought. His paintings explore the continuous flow of internal dialogue that shapes our beliefs about ourselves and the world around us. Each work begins with documented thoughts, notes, or visual fragments—traces of a mental state at a particular moment in time. These serve as a foundation, but not a fixed plan. Rather than aiming for clarity or resolution, Jorris allows the process itself to guide the evolution of the painting.
Fascinated by psychological narratives, he investigates how meaning emerges through layered experience, memory, and spontaneous association. His work embraces uncertainty and the unknown, mirroring the way our minds construct non-linear, fragmented stories in real time. As he paints, new elements appear and dissolve, mimicking the rhythm of consciousness—one thought shifting into another, leaving marks behind.
The resulting compositions are not depictions of singular ideas but accumulations of intuitive decisions and emotional states. They become visual landscapes of introspection, reflecting a process of continual self-questioning. In this way, each piece stands as both artifact and evidence: a record of a moment, and an echo of the mind’s restless searching.
Jorris invites viewers not to decode, but to engage—to find resonance in the ambiguity and motion of the work. His paintings ask not for answers, but for a kind of recognition: that within the shifting layers of color and form lies something deeply familiar—the open-ended, constantly evolving nature of human experience.
Working towards a snapshot of thoughts and feelings Jorris builds and destroys constructions and compositions resulting in images that can be balanced and quiet or chaotic, unstable and tense. In both of those worlds there is beauty and comfort.
