Atelier Waldlaterne Picture Gallery, Oil Paintings, Caricatures

Welcome to Atelier Waldlaterne, the virtual gallery of artist couple Robert Matzken en Jolanda van Belzen. This website showcases a selection of photographs and oil paintings, and will include a growing collection of fine art postcards and prints that may be ordered from us.

Painting Boulevard

Jolanda's paintings are Still Life's in the style of the 18th century Dutch and French master painters, with influences by 21st Century contemporaries. Browse her works on Painting Boulevard.

Atelier Waldlaterne oil painting of Mortar and Pestle

Bronze Mortar and Pestle on Slate, Oil on Canvas, 2008

Some of Jolanda's paintings are being offered for sale. Please send email to inquire.

Caricature Corner

In this section are samples of the hand colouring work Jolanda specialises in ever since having learned the craft in Scotland. Antique caricatures from Punch Magazine, of classic sporting scenes such as golfing and shooting and angling.

Punch caricature, 1928 - Hand coloured 1997

Besides caricatures there are traditional Dutch and Scottish city-scapes, meticulously hand-coloured with finest water colour paints. Thus Jolanda mastered the art that was custom in the age before colour printing.

Photo Avenue

Follow directions under Photo Avenue to visit virtual galleries of photographs, including black & white renderings of scanned negatives from the 1980's; and examples of Photoshop-processed digital colour pictures. Some photographs are offered for sale as Limited Edition Giclée Prints. (This section is under development).

Portrait of a glass cutter, Jordaan Amsterdam, 1982
Scanned b/w negative, toned in Photoshop

Country Lane

The Country Lane leads to our personal corner, our living room so to speak, in which we record some of our personal impressions and memories.

The name Waldlaterne refers to the 'Narnia Lamppost' which is planted between a collection of shrubs and trees: Wald being the German word for 'a wood' and laterne meaning lamppost. Walk a bit further along Country Lane to browse (and download for your desktop if you wish) some pictures of the Narnia Lamppost.

Where is Waldmark

Waldmark is a rather remote, rural area made up of farm fields and forests on gentle hills, with some farms and cottages scattered around. It is a good place to contentedly live and be working on photographs, oil paintings, picture framing and web-sites.

Cattle in the Osnabrücker Land, 2006

Waldmark is located in the Osnabrücker Land - in Lower Saxony, Northern Germany - a region of quaint little towns and villages, and enveloped in the peace and quiet of the Teutoburger Wald National Park.