Stan Kuiperi (Aruba, 1954) is an Art Education teacher and visual artist residing in Aruba.He has lived in the Caribbean (Puerto Rico), the USA (Florida) and Europe (the Netherlands, France) and holds a professional Art Education Degree (1ste Graads Docent Beeldende Vorming, Akademie voor Beeldende Vorming, Tilburg, the Netherlands 1981, Sticusa Art Scholarship).
After having studied and lived abroad for almost 15 years, Stan Kuiperi resettled in Aruba at the end of 1984 to teach art and art education, and to contribute to the general cultural development of the Aruban community.
He married Aruban modern ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher Wilma Valeria Jansen in 1987. They have two children, Lara and Astor.
He is currently active in Aruban and international art education, art creation and arts projects, and continues to travel.
The surealist landscapes of Aruba were an early source of inspiration for his abstract paintings. Years of developing a personal visual language through color, form, composition, and texture have led to the multidimensionality of his landscapes: There is more to the landscape than meets the eye. Space and time remain undefined, nature and culture have merged inseparably.
Stan Kuiperi's paintings are visualizations of the journey each one of us makes through our interior landscape in the lifelong quest to ultimately find one's own self.
