Jerome
Bech

Where CoBrA meets the street.

Born in Amsterdam in 1970, Jerome Bech has lived and worked in Bergen NH for most of his life. Largely self-taught, he began making art at 21 and has built a practice spanning more than 35 years — blending painting, mixed media and found objects into works that are immediately recognisable and impossible to categorise.

His early influences include the CoBrA movement, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Dutch poet-painter Lucebert — who noticed Bech’s talent early and encouraged him to develop his own voice. That voice is now unmistakable: expressive, layered, ironic, and alive with colour.

His paintings invite you to look longer. Every layer holds a new detail, every text fragment a new thought. Bech makes art that is playful on the surface and serious underneath — or perhaps the other way around.