2009-2010 Preserved Places (Dunes Festival, Schoorl) In 2009 till 2011 a pyromaniac was active in the area around Bergen and Schoorl where I lived and I wanted to make as much drawings of the places there which I loved and also other places which mean a lot to me. The title Preserved Places is reminiscent…
2009 Investigating Light. Trees, 2 Neurologist Frans Cornelissen showed me a documentary about people with dyslexia, visualising the way they often see one letter clearly and the area around the word vaguely. It made me understand why I make my drawings as a combination of details and smudges. At that time I lived in Schoorl,…
2008 Three Moments Of Time ‘Light at Sea,’ Willemsoord Marine Yard, Den Helder The vast and impressive buildings of the Marine Yard in Den Helder date back to Napoleon, who wanted to transform the area into the Gibraltar of the North. The enormous windows of the place which I choose to create my contribution to…
2007 Catching Light (Site et Cetera, Den Haag) After the Art Academy in Den Bosch I studied at the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede. For my final presentation I had to produce a short thesis about my work and I chose to have a dialogue with Frans Cornelissen. He is a neurologist, researching visual perception…
2005 Container (Sail Amsterdam) As a part of my final project at the Art Academy Den Bosch, I decided to walk around at night taking pictures of illuminated windows of houses and buildings. Windows like these I began to draw with charcoal and these drawings were the first I was completely happy with, for example…
