Artist Statement

Every painting begins with an idea.

I often develop that first idea on the computer. Photoshop is my sketchbook. It is where I explore compositions, colour and possibilities before I begin painting. These studies are not blueprints. They simply provide a point of departure.

Once the first layers are on the canvas, the process changes.

From that moment on, I respond to what happens on the surface. I search by intervening, experimenting and, at times, undoing what I have just done. Gradually, the dialogue with the painting becomes more important than the original idea.

I keep searching until the painting develops a layered coherence that could never have been planned from the beginning.

I prefer not to explain my work.
The paintings speak for themselves.

Born 01-04-1955 in Schiedam, the Netherlands.

Worked and lived until 2007 as an artist in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Works and lives since 2008 in Almelo in the Netherlands.