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Dick Haakman employs different styles and techniques. He regards a style less important than a subject matter. A landscape, still life or portrait is realistically painted in oil. His impressions of landscapes are in watercolours. Paintings dealing with musical themes are often done in oil, wax and pigments burned into waxed paper, creating a dreamlike imagery.

Dick Haakman was born in 1934 and raised in an artistic environment at Bergen. At an early age he went to live in California where he studied at the L.A. Academy after he discontinued his profession as aeronautical draftsman.

Initially he became successful with smartly detailed realistic work that took him through many places in the Western States. Later, in 1976, he returned to Europe and married pianist Mascha van Peijpe. Currently they live in Poederoijen to organise expositions of his works and concerts in a monumental farmhouse in Poederoijen.