Tjalf Sparnaay (born 1954 Museum De Fundatie) is a Dutch artist, photographer, illustrator and painter.Tjalf Sparnaay; male / Netherlandish; photographer, illustrator, painter at rkd.nl, 2015. Born in Haarlem, Tjalf lived with his parents for much of his younger years. Haarlems Dagblad Sparnaay was educated to become a sports teacher and became a selftaught painter and amateur photographer from about 1980. Before becoming an established artist, Sparnaay made postcards to earn money. Postcards by Sparnaay on Muller WenskaartenPostcards by Sparnaay on Art Unlimited Tjalf Sparnaay once lived in Drenthe, and later moved to Hilversum. Official website He calls himself a painter and businessman. TV portrait 2013
Exhibitions Sparnaay exhibits in the Netherlands, the United States and England. His paintings have sold for over $55,000. His original works are exhibited and sold by art dealers in three countries: Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in New York, PlusOne Gallery in London, and at Mark Peet Visser Gallery in the Netherlands.
Sparnaay exhibited in various art galleries, such as the Meisel (from 2013), OK Harris Works of Art, New York (from 2002 until 2012), Plus One Gallery, London (from 2006 until 2014), and Smelik and Stokking Gallery, The Hague (1994).
In 2015, a solo-exhibition with 50 works, painted between 1998 and 2014 took place in Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle. RTV Oost about exhibition Fundatie
Selected publications Ralph Keuning, Ronald Hans Anton Plasterk, Jan Six. Closer. The mega realism of Tjalf Sparnaay, Exhibition catalogue, 2015,
References
External links
Tjalf Sparnaay, homepage at tjalfsparnaay.nl Getting Closer, a documentary about megarealist painter Tjalf Sparnaay