After his training at the Minerva Academy in Groningen and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Homan specialized as an etcher pur sang. He knows how to capture his subjects in zinc and copper with a seemingly playful ease.
Old trees, a single twig, but also roadsides full of flowers, a stream valley in a bird's eye view or the mist above the fields, all subjects that come up in his etchings, elaborated extremely minutely and subtly. Every detail shows unconditional attention and dedication.
Silence, inspiration, love and respect for nature are concentrated in etchings that excel through craftsmanship. Stillness has been elevated to the highest power without violence being done to reality. The purity that the artist sees in natural elements that most people carelessly ignore is intensified in printmaking that seeks nuance.
Reinder Homan is looking for the poetry of capricious reality, for an intensification of perception. He is described as an artist in whom craftsman, dreamer and poet come together and whose etchings are at the same level.
