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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'First Crazy Snow" 16" x20" part of my online exhibition at www.thewillardgallery.com/collections/...

Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My new paintings influenced from dream work and wayfinding in ambiguous memory spaces, a poiesis or a “bringing-forth” of something that did not exist before, is online at The Willard Gallery. www.thewillardgallery.com/collections/...

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Luminous Wonder by Richard Kooyman — The Willard Gallery

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Eclipse of the Moon 20" x 24" , oil, 2026

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Pond Poem #5 , oil, 2026 www.richardkooyman.com

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Every painting is a bit like a palimpsest, a trail of crumbs to find my way back except there is no going back, just forward until it surprises me. Every night the mooon is in a little different spot and I don't know how that happens. Where Is The Moon Now 10” x 20”, oil, 2026

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Red Ducks On A Morning Pond,oil on canvas, 34” x 40”, 2026. I was hiking early one morning near Point Reyes Station, CA when I came across this shallow pond where I didn’t expect a pond to be.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"There is knowledge that can be known and described, there is knowledge that can be known but not described, and there is knowledge that can not be known and not described." Vanessa Machado de Oliveira richardkooyman.com/home.html

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Pond At Night 12" x 12" oil on canvas. New substack at richardkooyman.substack.com/p/the-moon-i...

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira suggests we live our lives: "as a spiritual ceremony where your relationship with unknownability and indeterminacy becomes more important than trying to fix the world into forms that can be categorized, ordered, ranked, and controlled." Read more in my new Substack post.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

richardkooyman.substack.com/p/the-moon-i... My new Substack in a long time just hit the stands!

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The Moon in the Woods

It changed me.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My Substack 'On Beauty" is coming back. Not quite ready but soon. Coming back reinvigorated and a little pissed off. More info soon.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

New in 2026. - Moon In The Woods 44" x 44" o/c

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Moon Over Lake Michigan, 10" x 8", o/c 2025 That is how I remember it. That was the image I had in my mind. What's more, That is why I'm telling you this.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Butter Sky Over The Swamp 10" x 8" , oil, 2025

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The first snow of the year doesn't try to advertise anything to you. It doesn't argue politics or make you sign up for something or ask you to take a survey. It is a gift. Ok, maybe by the end of the season you don't need any more snow, but it is still a gift. First Snow- 14" x 17" oil on linen 2025

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

""I think what we're looking for is a way of experiencing the world in which .....

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Pond At Night

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Red Borealis with Green 12" x 12" oil on canvas

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

www.richardkooyman.com New website, new work, almost a new year, a new approach, new ideas, new understanding.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

De-computerize yourself. Painting by Harriet Korman

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Melanie Parke and I will be opening our studios as part of the Onekama/Arcadia Open Studio Tour July 5 -6 from 11-4 each day. Hope to see you there.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

"Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth, (they) formulate ideas which would otherwise remain vague and focuses attention upon facts which can then no longer be ignored." Iris Murdoch Waves, 8" x 10", oil, 2025

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Building A New Landscape 10.5" x 8.75",oil and wood, 2025

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"Art and morals are...one. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and moral is the discovery of reality." Iris Murdoch Landscape, 10"x8", oil on canvas with wood

Landscape, 10" x 8" , oil on canvas with wood, 2025

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A new blog post at www.richardkooyman.com about how a March blizzard blew our power out which led me to think about the Italian philosopher Bifo and his ideas about Art feeding the soul.

Painting Shown: The Art of Almost 10" x 8" oil, 2025

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A company I have used in Canada that produces stretcher bars now has to pay a 25% tariff. They are offering to eat 10% of the tariff but US customers will have a 15% price increase.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Settling back into the studio. Looking at this one that is sitting on the floor across from my desk. 'Sunrise Over My Neighbors' Field 20" x 24"

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"Stuff without knowledge is never enough to get you there." Greg Brown

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Dana Falconberry @danafalconberry.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Tonight in Marfa!!!

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Back in Michigan after a vacation to SC, a State I have never been to. Filled with natural beauty and birds and a painful history. We stayed on one of the Sea Islands noted in this picture, where the Gullah Geechee people defended themselves during Reconstruction and still are from land developers.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A painter friend posted in frustration about what is happening in Washington... "I'm just going to paint". Let's not "just" paint. Let's paint and make art like it is the shining light leading us forward. Its going to get dark out there. Shown: Agnes Martin. She waited 20 years for her inspiration.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is a look back to an 11" x 14" painting from 2019 which I'm not sure what ever happened to it. I like its loose feel and is what I want more of my paintings to feel like. Different directions in the work over the years are like waves that keep coming to shore.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I'm taking a short break from winter in South Carolina, the home of birds, salt marshes, 19 native tribes, and the Gullah, deep descendants of slaves. It's also the home of Nancy Mace and Lindsey Graham who certainly don't add to the beauty of the area. New blog post. richardkooyman.com/news.html

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

New blog post. Why I will not keep up on the political news coming from the White House. richardkooyman.com/news.html

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Cambium 14" x 11" oil. 2025 Who is up for some greenery!!

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Really enjoying the “Lists” function. Make as many lists or feeds as you want: artist, friends, Galleries, politics, and then plug the different accounts in the appropriate list. This way you click on a list and only see those accounts you’ve added.

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

"The madman hangs in fancy homes They wouldn't let him near! He'd piss in their fireplace! He'd drag them through Turbulent Indigo" Joni Mitchel see Alt text

You wanna make Van Goghs
Raise 'em up like sheep
Make 'em out of Eskimos
And women if you please
Make 'em nice and normal
Make 'em nice and neat
You see him with his shotgun there?
Bloodied in the wheat?
Oh what do you know about
Living in Turbulent Indigo?

Brash fields crude crows
In a scary sky
In a golden frame
Roped off
Tourists guided by
Tourists talking about the madhouse
Talking about the ear
The madman hangs in fancy homes
They wouldn't let him near!
He'd piss in their fireplace!
He'd drag them through Turbulent Indigo

"I'm a burning hearth" he said
"People see the smoke
But no one wants to warm themselves
Sloughing off a coat
And all my little landscapes
All my yellow afternoons
Stack up around this vacancy
Like dirty cups and spoons
No mercy Sweet Jesus!
No mercy from Turbulent Indigo" Joni Mitchel

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Richard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"At regular intervals in history, the artist has tended to be a revolutionary or at least an instrument of change in so far as (they) have tended to be a sensitive and independent thinker with a job that is a little outside established society." Iris Murdoch

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