Arjan van Gent & Patricia Steur - Legends in lines and lenses

Patricia Steur

Patricia has worked as a successful independent photographer since 1980 with an international career that began in the turbulent 1980s photographing live rock and roll and pop concerts where she was one of the few female photographers in a predominantly male world. She worked for magazines and photographed stars such as Blondie, Andy Warhol and Sting, and made many records and CD covers. Many famous artists and bands such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Cure, U2's Bono and the Red Hot Chili Peppers have appeared in front of her camera.

Besides making documentaries and film, Patricia has published 10 books and an 11th on her entire body of work is in the works. She has been awarded major prizes and had over 30 solo and group exhibitions in Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles and Istanbul, among others. In 2019, she was knighted by the Dutch King in the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Her interest is broader than rock ‘n’ roll and celebrities. She has a deep interest in capturing the disappearing traditions of ancient cultures, such as the tribal tattoos of the indigenous people of New Zealand, the Maoris and of Samoa, Indonesia and even headhunters in the Philippines. She is happy to see a renaissance of these ancient cultures. Every year there is an exhibition of her work.

Arjan van Gent 

Arjan van Gent was born on 3 June 1970 in Delft and trained at The Hague Royal Academy and Amsterdam's Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Van Gent is a versatile painter whose work exudes a deep connection with his subjects. His portraits, often of iconic rock musicians, combine technical precision with an expressive power that manages to capture the soul of the music.

His work is in both private (including. private collection Sting, Romy Haag, Maggi Ronson, Suzi Ronson, Lynn Davis, Cindy Mizelle, Erik Hargrove, Paulette McWilliams, the Cruyff family and David Bowie alumni Mike Garson, Carmine Rojas, Gerry Leonard, Ava Cherry, Earl Slick, Carlos Alomar, Robin Clark, Donny McCaslin and Alan Childs) as well as museum collections (Gerard Reve museum in Amsterdam, museum Swaensteyn in Voorburg and the Vermeer Centre in Delft) and is regularly shown at Pulchri Studio in The Hague. In 2016, he won the Audience Award of the Zomersalon at the same gallery. His work has also been shown at Galerie 44, Galerie Pictura, Morren Galleries, Kunstzaal Van Heijningen, Galerie Wildevuur and at the Dutch Portrait Prize, among others. In 2012, he was a participant in the well-known television programme ‘Sterren op het Doek’ (Stars on the Screen) and in 2023 he was featured in ‘the New Vermeer’.