Tijmen Steenvoorden's painting practice focuses on the metamorphic nature of mental images memories, dreams, and imagination. They are in a constant flux, and the gesture of continuous painting comes closest to reflecting their mobile, oscillating, cloudlike quality.

Memories are not records. To picture them, to paint them, to translate them, means to render visual their process, and not only their image.

Overpainting on a single surface defines the image not as stable, still, or finished, but as open, and as mirroring the dynamic nature of memories.