About my artwork
‘I LIKE TAKING THE IMAGE TO A BREAKING POINT.’
Temporality and vulnerability are main themes in my work. I choose my medium and topics intuitively.
In particular the golden age I find fascinating. In addition, I try to live in their personality and psyche. The portraits I create bear witness to this. It is not primarily about similarity but about content. Despite that I paint and draw what I see there is a high degree of abstraction. The original image I make own by a process of distortion and blur. The images have a softness and mystery and are becoming more intangible. With the DISTORTED HEADS I break more violent in the image and make them fragmentary and even broken. I do intuitively research into what interests me in image and media. The time I spent on the actual making of an art work is short, speed is for me a condition for making authentic images. The materials I work with, charcoal, graphite, paint, are autonomous, it is clear to me that the form to a certain extent is the content of a work. It is not only at the service of the subject but also leads a life of its own. The work, as it were, travels back and forth between the drawing and painting itself, the paint and the charcoal, and that to where it refers.
In te Flora series I try to demonstrate both the fragility and mortality of nature as well as the beauty of it.
Through bold brushstrokes and vivid colors, I try to capture the moment where figuration dissolves into abstraction. Every layer of paint reveals the physical act of creation, it’s all about the process, the gesture, the intensity.
Sources: art history starting from the 17th century to the present, old photos and everything what draws my attention in publications, newspapers, the internet etcetera.
I am inspired at the artists whom I greatly admire: Willem de Kooning, Luc Tuymans, Gerhard Richter, Michael Borremans, Jan Mankes, Adrian Ghenie.