Sijtse Keur has been painting three days a week since 2005. Before then, as he says himself, he had ‘never put a line on paper’. He has learned a lot in a short time, painted a whole body of work together and had several exhibitions. ‘I paint because I like it and it fascinates me, it comes from my heart.’ His paintings have something of a patchwork, they are all pieces with different colours and subjects ‘treated’ in different ways; sometimes with textured paint, sometimes by scratching into them with the back of a brush or drawing over them with crayon. Keur: ‘then it comes out more, I like that myself, then it does something. I want people to be happy with my paintings. I used to make more dark paintings, now light ones.’

2023 De Keuze van Paul Klemann | Special Arts in Nicolaikerk Utrecht

2023 Art Brut Galerij Deventer

2023 MUKHA Antwerpen | participant in tentoonstelling Museumspelen

2023 Nest Den Haag | Grand Palace of Everyone

2022 Galerie Art Brut 058 Leeuwarden

2022 Art Brut Biennale Hengelo

2021 Koppelkerk Bredevoort

2021 Open Ateliers Nieuwmarkt

2021 Outsider Art Galerie | Sijtse Keur SOLO

2021 Outsiderwear Festival

2020 Outsider Art Galerie | Het gewone is bijzonder

2019 Special Award genomineerde

2018 Outsider Art Galerie | soloshow

2018 Outsider Art Galerie | Samen bouwen / Building together, groupshow

2017 Kunstrai Outsider Art plein

2016 Outsider Art Galerie

2015 Museum Jan van der Togt | Special Award

2010 Amsterdam Outsider Art