Warning: include(../press/A box of paints, brushes, ink bottles, felt-tip pens, and a dish with a blob of white on it are laid out on a table in the hotel suite. The paper is thick, creamy and heavy as linen. Olaf van Cleef dunks a brush into one of the three tooth glasses filled with water and bathes the paper surface with it. <p>Next, with a paintbrush loaded with blue, he executes two strokes on the wet surface. They get blurred. He repeats the act with black pigment, into which carbon has been ground. The black strokes turn into bristly caterpillars. He obsessively dabs pinpricks of paint and ink till the surface turns into a minefield of reds, yellows and greens and black forms set with diamonds.</p> <p>As a Cartier biggie, Olaf is more used to handling gems and jewellery. But for the past five years or so, he has been painting, sometimes through the night, like a man possessed. Thereby, he has created a body of work large enough to be exhibited. “After 20 years in the jewellery business, I wa in /home/olafvancleef/olafvancleef.org/downloads/index.php on line 160

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