Jan van der Kooi (born in Groningen, January 16, 1957) is a Dutch painter and drawer in the style of figurative arts.
[6] Van der Kooi particularly focuses on painting sunlight in different places and climates, such as Peru, Nepal and Israel.
[11][12] In 2007 his British friend and colleague Michael Reynolds invited Van der Kooi to participate in an exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London[13] and later that year Dame Emma Kirkby and Anthony Rooley performed at the opening of Van der Kooi's exhibition in Museum De Buitenplaats [nl] in Eelde.
[15][16] In 2012 posters of Van der Kooi’s tiger drawings were displayed at Dutch national railway stations to promote the exhibition in the Dordrechts Museum.
Van der Kooi makes drawings in a book that was also used by Michelangelo and Raphael and which has been in the possession of Christina, Queen of Sweden.