'Last Thoughts on Coosje' - 100 x 75 cm - Oil on canvas - 2021
'Paul de Bie's pictorial language centres on the figure-in-the-room. Using a rich range of poetic details, his pictures play with the inner and outer, escape and refuge.
Exploring the psychology of his subjects, using both realism and symbolism, he sees his paintings as a means to expres the 'fragile, spiritual world between life and death. His work evokes the 'beautiful sadness' of good memories as well as other memories life throws up, especially of farewells.'
- J. R Purcell (Art critic Financial Times) -