I strive to work in a spacious manner because I believe the openness of the image is very important. This way I can convey what moves me without words.
The use of material plays a big role in my practice, I am constantly looking for the physical possibilities to realize my ideas. I capture light in fairly dark images for which I use different techniques. Creating built-up and torn down layers, to create depth and meaning more from the act of painting itself.
This approach gives me room to work freely and to come up with new discoveries.
100 x 75 cm
Acrylic and oil paint on canvas 2023
Artist statement
At the moment I am engaged with jungle nature images I saw this summer in Indonesia when I visited and met my family in Jakarta for the first time. A journey that made great impact on me and therefor also on my work. Certain things I see in my surroundings that appeal to me, memories and experiences from my personal life get translated into my artistic practice. And ghostly figures portrayed as a vague memory are haunting the landscape within my work. Nature and the power it embodies is extremely inspiring to me, I can translate tales and emotions from the past and present through this connection. The Indonesian and dutch roots I have both find a place in my work.
I strive to work in a spacious manner because I believe the openness of the image is very important. This way I can convey what moves me without words.
The use of material plays a big role in my practice, I am constantly looking for the physical possibilities to realize my ideas. I capture light in fairly dark images for which I use different techniques. Creating built-up and torn down layers, to create depth and meaning more from the act of painting itself.
This approach gives me room to work freely and to come up with new discoveries.
Ambitions
Continuing my work.
Learned during the studies
I have learned and discovered a lot during my study period and experienced how valuable an institute can be for my artistic practice.
List of publications / exhibitions / prices / concerts / shows etc.
Exhibitions
2021. Group exhibition Zinc Goat in project space LOKAAL
2023. Group exhibition TRAILER in AG
2023. Mural in Kunsthal Rotterdam
2023. Hku graduation exhibition
Publications
2022. Artist in ‘De grote kunst kalender’ 2022
2023 New art project magazine nr. 1
Blue patterns
Including personal experiences, doing so by recording myself to speak freely, writing poems, looking at artists that work with similar themes and inspire me in their subject and material approach, also including two books about play and the role of play within my own practice.