Biography

Jasper van den Ham (1978) is a painter who works and lives in a small village in the Netherlands.

Jasper started out as a photographer. In 2015 he launched a photobook through crowdfunding and won the Cultuurprijs in Woerden. In 2017 he was selected for New Photo, a book showing the 100 most appealing and upcoming photography talents in the Netherlands (Dutch Photography Talent 2017). Four years later he started painting. Since 2023 Jasper is represented by Contempo Gallery in Rotterdam. Since then his work has been shown at art fairs in the Netherlands, like PAN Amsterdam and the KunstRAI.

Artist statement

In my work it’s about the character of places I visit, not about the people in it. I give nature a big role in my paintings, in particular trees and plants. Almost like they have their own personalities, formed with multiple layers of color. It’s not always about a specific location, as sometimes I combine elements from different journeys. They may seem like seperate elements, but to me they form an inseparable whole of my memory. I bring non-existent landscapes to life in combinations of memories, in the end the actual locations are not interesting. The depicted memories require imagination.