Koos Smit

Koos Smit (Jacobus Cornelis Maria Smit) Born in Berkel-Rodenrijs The Netherlands.

As an Artist:

Koos has been working as a selftaught artist up till 1980.
In 1981 he took lessons in painting at the "Vrije Akademie” in Rotterdam, and continued his studies in fine art and painting in 1983 at the "Koninklijke Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten" in The Hague.
In 1988 he graduated successfuly .
Since that time Koos is working as an independent artist and has had many exhibitions in a variety of galleries and art-promoting institutions, as well as in The Netherlands as abroad.

Momentarily, Smit is working mainly with acryllic paints on canvas.
With a combination of acryllics and varnishes he has managed to attain a quality, comparable to oil-paintings, in structure, depth and coloration.
By bringing in pieces of paper, textiles and pigments he attains structure and relief and the paintings acquire depth by strong lines and robust primairy colorfields.
The refinement of beautiful, saturated color intensities, arises trough many layers of thin paint. (glaze).
Choosing for acryllic paints gives him the possibility to work prolonged, fast and dedicated.
During certain stages of the proces of painting it is important to work fast, to be able to stick to that moment of intuition and inspiration and thus attain the dynamics of the composition, in which a unique, pictorial world comes alive.

As an Musician:

Koos started playing drums at the age of 11 in a fanfare orchestra in Berkel-Rodenrijs. In fact he is autodidact, but occasionally he took lessons from people like Ton op 't Hof (Limousine/ Rainbow Train, etc).

Koos became renown in the 80’s with his bands Stealer and The Dolby’s. With the Rotterdam formation Stealer, with Ocki Klootwijk (Rocktown studios), Koos was touring Germany, Denmark and Holland. Stealer was also support-act for De Nits and Gruppo Sportivo. In 1981 Stealer launched their album “I can’t stand it!” which has been sold very well in Germany.

In 1983 Koos joined “The Boxx”, a new band with Peter Vink (Q65/Finch/Living blues)
In 1984 he recorded an demo with the band Public, in the studio with Tjeerd van Zanen and Michel van Schie.
In 1987 he played in Rotterdam in the band “The Blue Brave” with Oscar Petersen.

In the beginning of 2010 Koos found his drumsticks again. first in t