Willering EPKO was born in the Netherlands on March 24, 1928. Epko's work has been exhibited in galleries in Montreal, Caracas, Munich, New York, Paris, Italy, and the Netherlands (among many others), and is present in the permanent collections of museums worldwide. During the most prolific period of his career (1950s/60s/70s), Epko won several awards and accolades in Paris for his work, as well as the Audience Award in New York in 1960. Epko was nicknamed the Dutch Magician of Color. This color, beyond forms and composition, allows Epko to venture where many painters dare not go, into a dimension where the boundary between abstraction and figuration is thin and the painter must absolutely address it in his own way if he aspires to find success. Although there is no formula, it is clear that Epko not only perfected his own style, enhanced by a technique based on color and texture, but above all, he managed to exploit all his talent to become one of the artists who cannot be ignored on the international scene!
