Artwork by Jeroen Erosie 70 x 50 cm Screen print in 3 colors on Zuber Rieder 120g paper at Atelier Superseñor Edition of 50 copies hand-signed 2021
If you’ve followed European graffiti and lettering over the past two decades, chances are you’ve already come across Erosie — even if you didn’t realize it at the time. Based in Eindhoven, the Dutch artist (real name Jeroen Erosie) started out writing graffiti in the mid-1990s, developing a visual language that now moves freely between letterforms, abstract geometry, and minimal figuration.
His work, on walls and on paper, draws from multiple vocabularies: modernist architecture, typographic systems, hand-painted signs, even folk art. Everything flows — carefully composed but always in motion, as if caught mid-transition. As he once put it:
“If you have a shape and make a hole in it, it becomes in the same way a letter or a building.”
This screen print, Small Studio, was created as part of the Bien Urbain festival in Besançon. It’s a perfect snapshot of Erosie’s approach: spontaneous but precise, formal yet playful. The image originated from one of his small-scale sketchbook studies — the kind of quick, intuitive drawing that later feeds into murals or exhibitions. Here, it becomes something else: a distilled form, layered in sharp, matte colors.
