Billy Foley is my favourite abstract painter.
It was on Saturday, June 12, 1999 that I for the
first time saw a painting by him, and that painting took me by surprise, and
I still consider it as my favourite.
On Saturday, December 4, 1999, I heard that
the painting had only recently been to someone on an art fair in Hengelo.
On January 28 and 31,
2000, I got some bitmap of the painting and made the back ground white.
Around January 15, 2001, I made a scan the
picture of the painting on the leaflet announcing his exhibition in 1999.
On Monday, February 10, 2003, I found his home
page. I tried to sent him an email, but failed to contact him.
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, I went to an exhibition
of Billy Foley in Hengelo and saw some of his new paintings.
On Saturday, March 20, 2004, I saw a new
painting by him, one that is much like my favourite painting, but not
as good. Since then, I often have visited "Beeld en Aambeeld" to look at it.
On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, I was
given a copy of the "Foley" catalogue.
On Thursday, September 21, 2006, went
to look at twenty new painting at "Beeld en Aambeeld".
On Saturday, September 30, 2006, Li-Xia,
Annabel, and I looked at the new paitings (again).
On Tuesday, September 13, 2004, I went to a
"Qua art - qua science" meeting held at the faculty club of the University of
Twente, where Billy Foley was one of the speakers. Because of the 25th
anniversary of art gallery "Beeld en Aambeeld", the owners of the gallery,
Karel Betman en Martha Haveman, asked fifty artists to make a piece of art
in relation to a person or organisation they admire. Billy Foley was on of
these artists and the person he admired was the Nobel prize winner
Murray Gell-Mann,
who got the prize because of his work on elemental particles, like quarks.
On Saturday, March 10, 2012, I heard
that the painting will be on display again from April 26 till June 1
as part of The Artery Show.
However, on Saturday, April 21, I heard that this
will not be the case. On Saturday, April 28, I
went to the opening of "The Kuks Collection". The next day,
I saw a drawing in Tetem 2, another location part of The Artery Show.
Gallery WVIII
On Saturday, July 6, 2013, I went to see works by
him in gallery WVIII. There were four large painting and seven smaller paintings.
The smaller paintings are recent works made in the past year, with very light
strokes in bright colours. The four larger works resemble works he made a long
time ago, using mostly black paint with some red accents.
On Saturday, July 20, 2013, I went there again.
Kunst in het Volkspark
On Sunday, June 12, 2016, I saw some of his works
in the tent of Beeld en Aambeeld at the open air art show Kunst in
het Volkspark.
