About me

I graduated at the Koninklijke Academie (Royal Academy) in the Hague, and got my diploma in 1985. Before that I became a technical engineer, because my parents didn’t trust the arts would give me a sound future.

In my time only a few privileged artist made a good living by their art. Most of us had to find other jobs to earn a living, as did I. I kept working on a small scale, and lately I found more time to develop myself as an artist. 

In my youth the first computers came around. My father was an early adapter and he loved to write his own programs. I share this fascination and from the start I tried different ways in which the computer could aid me as a new medium. And as a challenge, it was to be a new inspiration. Recently I’m sculpting inside the digital space, by means of VR. The development of generative AI is a new and very interesting frontier.

My most admired artist is Marcel Duchamp, because in his work it’s the ‘idea’ or concept that’s most important, not the technique used. The first to have the concept of a ‘ready made’ (the Fountain) and he was a kubist. 

An important theme I use is what living in the City means to me, another theme is the close up confrontation with other beings with whom we share this planet. I want to communicate the ‘sensation’ experienced. Humans turned out to be sort of a plague and I advocate better relations and care.

 

So I paint, print and sculpt to what is most fitting to convey these ‘Sensations’.

Solo exhibitions:

Exposition Royal Art Gallery Amsterdam 2012 

Exposition Centrale Bibliotheek Rotterdam 2014

Exposition Kunst gallery/Dick de Vries Den Haag 2022

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