Willy Heeks, Abstract American Painter
Circumstance conditions and frames Willy Heeks’s paintings such that each is a lustrous inventory of its own particularity. Self-contained and seemingly self-generated, they inexhaustibly spin around an axis of potential: what a line can do, what a brush can do, where color can suddenly flash forth or melt away. Their contemporaneity lies in awareness that anything is possible that can be imagined as seen: sullied marks and atmospheres at the limits of the visual… The paintings of Willy Heeks industriously explore the pleasures of an optical sensuousness, embracing any memory or association encountered in the process. Miraculously, they remain abstract. Faye Hirsch, Arts Magazine, February 1991
Habitat
2025 (62x60 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Ocean Bell House
2023 (70x66 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Poet
2023 (44x46 inches)
Oil andacrylic on canvas
Preface
2023 (58x62 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Sounding
2023 (70x67 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Studio Space
2023 (64x66 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
There It Is
2023 (64x66 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Verlaine
2023 ( 50x52 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Within Reach
2023 (62x60 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Dreamer
2023 (56x58 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Journal
2023 (63x61 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Kept Within
2023 (52x50 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Meadow
2025 (33x45 inches)
Oil andacrylic on canvas
Censer
2024 (46x44 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Anacapri
2023 (67x70 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Painters' Painting
2014 (63x61 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Sea Lantern
2013 (50x52 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Present Meanings
2014 (63x61 Inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Blue Line Two
2012 (70x66 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Eccentric Study
2014 (61x63 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Nocturnal Column
2012 (60x60 inches)
Oil and acrylic on cnavas
Studiohead
2014 (74x77 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Sublime Facets
2012 (88x100 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
The Finding
2014 (72x77 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
The Ideal Green
2014 (63x61 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
View out to the Seawall
2013 (66x70 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
From the Ocean
(62x64) inches
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Yellow Float
2014 (52x50 inches)
oil and acrylic on canvas
Navigation
( 58x55 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
The Research
2014 (63x61 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Tu Es Fou
2015 (46x44 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Theory
2015 (58x56 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
The Clearing
2015 (77x74 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Tassel
2015 (44x46 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Sea Wreath
2015 (77x74 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Presence of Mind
2015 (52x55 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Methodology
2015 (56x58 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Inner Logic
2015 (58x62 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Hypothesis
2015 (64x62 inches)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Willy Heeks Recent Work
Circumstance conditions and frames Willy Heeks’s paintings such that each is a lustrous inventory of its own particularity. Self-contained and seemingly self-generated, they inexhaustibly spin around an axis of potential: what a line can do, what a brush can do, where color can suddenly flash forth or melt away. Their contemporaneity lies in awareness that anything is possible that can be imagined as seen: sullied marks and atmospheres at the limits of the visual… The paintings of Willy Heeks industriously explore the pleasures of an optical sensuousness, embracing any memory or association encountered in the process. Miraculously, they remain abstract. Faye Hirsch, Arts Magazine, February 1991