Ann Wilson Lloyd in "Art in America", may 1992.

After Nature, a group of six earnest young Dutch artists (Ernst Voss, Jurriaan van Hall, PeterKlashorst, Bart Domburg, Gijs and Aad Donker), held a four-week paint-in on gallery premisis, gradually filling the walls with their efforts and the floor with beer cans and pizza cartons. The overall scene was one of good natured chaos and brisk energy, and the works-on-the-spot portraits and self-portraits, nudes and street scenes- reflected this. All were done in a raw, freewheeling,representational style.
The members of After Nature maintain that their intent is to learn to paint like 17th-century masterswhile still seeing today's reality with the innocence of a child. Reeducating the eye, they feel, is the essence of what art should do today, and to this end they have vowed the full disclosure of all their works, good or bad. Only Klashorst and Voss hedge ever so slightly. Voss expressed some chagrin at the group's disinclination to edit the works on view at Newburg (Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York).
Reproduced examples of his own paintings (of skulls and monkeys) in After Nature's offbeat catalogue and date book (After Nature-agenda - Raiders of thelost Art) do indicate a more polished technique than that of most of the work that was on display. It is perhaps a sign of the group's success that After Nature has been branded as reactionary by some art critics in the Netherlands and its actions dismissed as jokes. After Nature is truly a movement for the '90s.

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