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Diederick Kraaijeveld, a self taught artist, calls his pieces “photo realistic sculptures with originally colored salvaged wood”. He does not use paint at all, only uses the colors as they are. Kraaijeveld started doing classic cars but is into portraits and daily items (All Stars, Coca Cola bottle) as well. The wood is found by the artist himself in dumpsters, old mansions/farms and along shores all over the world. In his pieces one can find parts of centuries old flooring from Amsterdam canal mansions, an old Italian door or a fragment from a Kenyan fishing boat. It is Kraaijeveld’s goal to create desirable objects out of materials that people have thrown away thoughtlessly. Kraaijeveld uses the name Oudhout, which means Old Wood in Dutch. His work has been shown in galleries in Amsterdam, Holland, the US (Carmel CA, Denver CO and New York NY), Switserland (Basel), the UK (London) and UAE (Dubai)
