This painting is about the creation of the world, the start of it all. Based also on the Edda, the Nordic mythology.
Shapes are beginning to form, and in some corners, there’s what you can call “first evidence of possible life”.
110 x 100 cm, oil on canvas.
This painting hung in my living room for years. But I have decided to sell it. Great piece, but it’s time for something new!
Looks attractive at first glance, but would you dare to stick your hand into it, if that was possible?
120 x 200 cm
Two pictures of my studio, my atelier, when I just moved in.
Actually, it’s a little bit me also. Because this is the place, where no one else but me, makes the decisions. My own free state, the total anarchy, do whatever you want, no one cares, no one knows. That sounds great, but it also means, that I am the only one responsible, when things go wrong. When I mess up my paintings. Nobody else to blame, that’s the down side.
On the other hand: my little kingdom.
Oilpainting, 160 x 80 cm
Check this excerpt of the short animation of Floris Kaayk. A Dutch guy who makes wonderfull and strange animations.
See some famous paintings of Edward Hopper “in the flesh”
One of my favorites. For me, simplicity is not a main goal. But sometimes difficult for me to achieve.
I have the tendency to make very busy compositions, overall compositions. There’s nothing wrong with that. But I have to keep in mind, that there are many ways to handle a composition. And sometimes you just have to stop. An there is nothing wrong with that either.
Edvard Munch is also one of my NO heroes 😉
I always look at his backgrounds. For me, as a painter, to make an interesting background is not easy to do. Also to make it match with the motives you are putting in. Which technique does the artist use, to accomplish that?
In the first painting – the sick child, made in 1885- I especially admire the way Munch painted the cushion. The red colour of the hair of the girl, is sort of shining in the pillow.
In the second one, “Parish nude”, made in 1896, the painting looks more simple. He also puts a contour around a part of the woman. The brushstrokes are less visible. He is thinking more in “colour fields”. It makes the painting more “flat”. He even doesn’t bother, to give the woman a real face. I think, because it’s now more a matter of art and what you can do with paint, how you can solve problems you encounter as an artist. Then it is to paint a real figurative painting. And don’t forget, in these days artists had to compete with photography.
So they had to invent new ways, of how to cope with their art. What do I want with my paintings?
Is it just a coincidence, that Munch is also a painter from Scandinavia? Like Per Kirkeby? I really don’t know.
Chalk on paper, 32 x 25 cm
This painting is called “Preformation”. Not too long ago, scientists thought that the human embryo, the baby, was a tiny version of a grown human being. Waiting in the sperm cell. And just had to grow (in the womb of the woman ofcourse).
I also read a lot about “the Edda”, a very old book about the creation of the world (Nordic mythology). This is also a theme a use sometimes.
And explains the environment the sperm cell is “floating” in, in this painting.
