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My paintings are about creating an illusion of verisimilitude on the painted surface, filtered so that it expresses my unique vision.

Though I use photographs as the image source, my goal is not to reproduce or document faithfully what I see, but to create an illusion of depth and sense of presence not found in photographs. Many of my paintings are about the relationship of light with reflective and transparent surfaces and my journey to understand those qualities and convey my sense of wonder and intrigue over them.

Lately I have been trying to imbue my paintings with a sense of narrative and lyricism.

Jason de Graaf was born in Montreal in He currently lives and works in Oka, Que