Works
Edwin IJpeij’s practice moves between painting and photography, with painting as its central axis.
Across both fields, his work is shaped by process, material precision and a sustained attention to how images are constructed, held and encountered.
Painting forms the core of IJpeij’s practice.
Working in oil and egg tempera, he builds each work through a layered process informed by early Netherlandish technique. Belgian linen mounted on panel, multiple gesso grounds, underpainting and slow passages of colour all contribute to a surface defined by stillness, precision and presence.
Rooted in Old Master discipline yet contemporary in its visual language, the paintings centre on the female figure not as motif alone, but as a bearer of form, dignity and presence.
Photography occupies a secondary but meaningful place within IJpeij’s practice.
It functions as a field of study within the studio: a way to explore light, pose, atmosphere and the presence of the figure before these concerns enter the slower construction of painting.
At times, these studies develop into separate bodies of work. Through alternative techniques such as cyanotype and palladiotype, the photographic image becomes a study in surface, time and light, capable of standing on its own.