DREAM MIRRORS
By Jan Jacob Henneman

In 1984 Jan Jacob Henneman started with an evolution cycle of seven times seven dreammirrors and a covering series of seven. He is striving to complete the cycle in the year 2002. The works completed from the cycle can be seen in Museum de Droomspiegel. The dreammirrors of the evolution cycle are not for sale and form part of the permanent collection of the museum. It is the intention, that in the future the cycle remains together and fulfils a function, that is going further than is usual in a museum. Jan Jacob; "I am a self-taught man. My first primitive painting was of a blind man walking in the park and dates back to January 1977. Only later I saw the resemblance between the blind man and myself, sensing like the blind for the form and the colour. To give myself a chance in the beginning years I painted "with blinkers on". After I felt sufficiently confident, I departed for three months to Canada and the USA to do nothing day in day out but to look and look again in museums and galleries. In 1984 I made an evolution to "conscious unconscious" painting. Later on I roamed twice for half a year round the far east. After the first five years a studio in the fishing harbour of IJmuiden, five years of stillness in Friesland and a lot of travelling, I am washed ashore in Heusden on the river Maas in 1989. I try "falteringly" all the time with form and colour to imagine something of our "endless journey". So evolve the dreammirrors, in which everyone can experience his own dream and there are as many dreams as onlookers".