Drawings • paintings • illustrations
Miniatures of everyday stillness, that's what all my work is about. Whether I write, paint or do research. I graduated from the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) on a book of hours inspired by medieval manuscripts and Persian miniatures. And I still like to do meticulous work. I observe to the smallest detail and always try to portray things as faithfully as possible. The most exciting subject for me is human absence in a man-made environment.
Illustration of the urban design concept for Oostenburg Amsterdam
Procreate on iPad, employed by Urhahn | urban design & strategy.
Impression for the renovation of Tropenhotel Amsterdam
Procreate on iPad, employed by Urhahn | urban design & strategy, for KIT
Dinner table
Procreate on iPad
Bowl of strawberries
Oil pastel, 15 x 20 cm
Tokyo, Kabukichō, Shinjuku
Oil pastel, 30 x 20 cm
Paddle plant (Kalanchoe thyrsiflora)
Oil pastel in only three colours, 15 x 15 cm
Self-portrait in 3 variants
Procreate on iPad
Amsterdam lights, puzzle
Oil pastel, 47 x 66 cm, commissioned by REBO Publishers
Girl studying in the Tilburg library
Gouache, 15 x 21 cm
Portrait of Friso Kramer lamppost with seagull
Oil pastel, 30 x 15 cm
Portrait of Friso Kramer lamppost on Wittenburg Amsterdam, Oil pastel, 30 x 15 cm
City cleaning company building Oostenburg Amsterdam
Watercolour and gouache, 25 x 20 cm
Amsterdam Central Station during lockdown of 2020
Gouache, 10 x 24 cm
The Netherlands is full (Amsterdam IJburg, Aug 10, 2003)
360 degrees Panorama photo montage, 16.5 x 170 cm
Lambdaprint on Dibond, edition limited to a maximum of 10
Japanese garden
Etching and aquatint 5.5 x 7 cm
Carnivorous plant (utricularia livida)
Gouache and gold leaf, 9 x 11 cm
Graduation work: (3 of the) 12 months of the year. Miniatures in gouache. Inspired by Persian miniatures and European medieval books of hours in which the painted passe-partout was often more beautiful than the inside of the page. Executed as still lifes of modern, plastic bowls and containers.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Miniature oil painting panel about the horsemen from Revelation 6 (New Testament), depicted as 4 still lifes: tables with laurel (Victory on a white horse), a pigeon (War on a red horse), a vine (Hunger on a black horse) and an empty table (Death, on a pale / green horse).
Arie, pencil drawing, 7 x 6 cm
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