ABOUT

Jeroen Elsen [sittard, 1979] studied painting at the ABK Maastricht. He lives and works in Ghent.

'... for the Genre painter has needed, both in himself and in those for whom he has wrought, some sense of the immediate and ultimate importance of the themes he deals with. Other men, other generations, may be pleased to style him trivial ;
but he, to see clearly and to chronicle well, must believe in the value and the interest of his work. No overpowering thought of larger issues—of a future, of another world, of a different society—must hang over him as he records our moods and manners and gains his revelation into permanent character by the accidents of the passing minute.'

The masters of genre painting by Wedmore, Frederick Sir, 1880