Gradually
the artist’s attention for his surroundings
changes as well, insofar as he taps new sources
of inspiration such as Brittany and the Provence.
His colouring becomes
different. The fierce colours of his initial work
are taken over by grey and later develop through
shades of mainly blue and yellow into a wonderful
tribute to light. Cleymans is not really an accurate
painter of reality. His experience is only an
impulse, a zest for a rather pictorial and inner
experience that remains recognizable no matter
how one touch revokes the other and how the depth
of the scene is more spiritual or pictorial inspired
than it is by reality. The amazement from which
his work springs is to a large extent the spark
from which a harmonious and colourful emotion
is born.
