HANS VAN DER HAM lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He studied classical piano at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and the Utrecht Conservatory before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam.
Van der Ham is a visual artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, and sculpture. His expressive paintings create an uncanny yet affable atmosphere. A recurring theme of characters exists, not just as archetypal symbols, but as figures within their own right with their own dialogues and agendas. Hans van der Ham paints intuitively and each work evokes the next where layering becomes a liberating condition for something new. Reflecting on his process he says, “The beginning of a painting feels like the setup of an orchestral score, after which the 'soloists' float to the surface of their own accord. Painting is about painting like music is only about music. There is no literal story. The anecdotal content comes from a distant memory.”
Hans van der Ham has exhibited extensively and his works are included in numerous public, corporate and private collections.