Comments by

Ira Cohen/ Allen Ginsberg/ Raymond Foye/ Sir Peter Blake RA / Jan Herman/ Heathcote Williams/ Yannis livadas/ Hans Walgenbach / Ted Honderich / Robin Garton/ Interview Gabriel Solomons

Classic Gerard Bellaart – fine ambitious spirit mind and meticulous loving eye.
Allen Ginsberg (poet)

Gerard Bellaart is a rare figure in the art-world. We should be grateful that he is living and working now. We are privileged to see these unique and wonderful works.
Sir Peter Blake Painter

When I look at Bellaart’s art I witness aspects of his mastery — a dream world brought from hidden shores. It strikes my eye in strange motifs and cryptic visions. I see intense frenzy & delicate contemplation etched by years of preparation, yet freewheeling.
Jan Herman

An ephemeral angel bursting into flame/under the sad eyes/of the shadowless poets/you too will rise/ to claim the copper mirror/on which your true/ face is etched. The path always the path/remember that when we/walk through the black paper/fulminating.
Ira Cohen Poet Photographer, on the etchings of Gerard Bellaart

Your work and publications have a visceral quality like none others that I know.
Raymond Foye (Art curator and publisher of Hanuman books)

Bellaart is a publisher with a painter's and a poet's eye for the surreal and the subversive. No one publishes material in quite the way that Bellaart has and continues to do.
Heathcote Williams Poet

Seen the works/this to say, they strike as splendidly evocative reflective. Also paradoxically replete with life vigour.
Ted Honderich Grote professor emeritus of the philosophy of mind and logic university college London.

Bellaart's work is unique. He has developed a distinctive, sensitive style after careful, practical study of historical techniques. The result is a vital expression of a perceptive, contemporary mind and a brilliant technician.
Robin Garton art dealer

I particularly love and admire Bellaart’s work because he is one of the rare artists capable of connecting the important aspects and traditional skills of the painter with a contemporary visual idiom that is rooted in art history, literature and philosophy. Never fashionable or mainstream, his work is always recognizable by its forceful individual character and unique signature.
A good example of this is the in-depth study he made of the work of Hercules Segers, and how he translated it into his graphic works, and the same observation can be made of his drawings and paintings where one always finds an extra depth that results from his studies, his erudite knowledge of art history and past masters and the artistic translation into his own time.
Thanks to a number of loyal collectors, Bellaart has been fortunate in being able to develop his work free from the constraints and influence of trends and fashions. He has become an artist whose work belongs to the international avant-garde.

Hans Walgenbach

Bellaart, has all the features of Bellaart; the pursuit of Bellaart, which is the total rejection of shadow, the gradual removal of knowledge and validation of consciousness, the gradual disappearance of Bellaart himself, and the metamorphosis of himself into the final outcome of his art; solitary, irretrievable and unprofitably accurate...
Yannis Livadas poet