Dimitri van Kampen is a visual artist. He creates abstract paintings, working with with oil on canvas.
His paintings often require long timelines. Sometimes he paints several canvasses simultaneously, working alternately on them. He uses various brushes, trowels, squeegees, and pallet knives to add and remove layers of paint, occasionally pausing to allow paint to dry and colour to develop. This process can take weeks to complete, during which the paintings slowly mature, revealing underlying layers, developing colours, and evolving surface textures.
He is interested in reducing the relationship between paint and surface to its most elemental — without representational or prescriptive meaning.