ED KOUMANS | 'Man + Bird series (1 of 4)' | Mixed media on paper

Edward Koumans was born 1946 in The Hague, Holland, arriving in Australia with his family in 1949. He lives and works in Cairns, Queensland. Koumans is one of Far North Queensland’s favourite artists, delighting collectors and artists for over two decades with his witty, ironic and sometimes sinister figurative assemblages and paintings. 

Koumans’s paintings have a primitive, figurative style. He uses an open brush technique and scrapes back through wet paint in a drawing gesture. His distinctive paintings on paper reveal the artist’s current interest in the subject matter of animals and humans.