Light Sprang Forth 

Celebrating the work of Netherlands-born artist and colorist Henri van Bentum

To mark the International Day of Light 2020

"Perhaps his background as a diamond-faceter’s son is responsible for the almost crystalline aspect of van Bentum's work. His paintings have a luminosity, a radiance, that emanates from within."  Below is a rotating gallery of some 21 "micro-macro" paintings, all created in the years before microphotography or images from space were available -- all inspired from an inner vision.  (For the title and year of each painting, hover your mouse over the bottom of the image.)