Ron van der Ende forges a captivating marriage between disparate art-making approaches to material reality. One, found-object assemblage, trades on the power of association and the evocative patinas of wear and use. The other, illusionism, depends on finely-tuned, seductive deceit. The Rotterdam, the Netherlands-based artist builds his wall-mounted works from salvaged wood, stripping the veneers and using them as a palette of textures and tones. He creates low reliefs (six inches deep) that are painterly and sculptural, reading as objects of far greater depth and mass.

Collections:
 
Bouwfonds Kunstcollectie, Caldic Kunstcollectie, West Collection, Historisch Museum Rotterdam, collection Frits van Dongen, Felix Claus, Hans Sonnenberg and many other private and corporate collections throughout Europe and the United States.

Large works by artist collective Expo Henk are in the collections of the Groninger Museum , Caldic Kunstcollectie, Wassenaar and Museum Kunsthal Rotterdam.