In the weekend of 18 and 19 April, there will be open studios at the Sluisfabriek in Drachten. For these occasions, I rebuild my studio to welcome visitors. I still need to work on some details, but the video shows a little taste of what you can expect… You can find the Sluisfabriek at Tussendiepen… Read More »Open Studio – 18 & 19 April

I am fascinated with the effect that size has on how you experience a painting. It seems like very wide vistas work well on very small canvasses, while close immersive paintings work well on a very large scale, because you physically feel to be inside of them. For the small paintings, it feels more like… Read More »Cutting a large painting into two

This week we visited Madeira. And we wanted to travel light, so as a little experiment I brought my tablet for drawing, and took it with me wherever we went. To keep things simple, I used an “HB graphite pencil” in infinitepainter. And just before I left, I added a matte “paper-feel” screen protector to… Read More »Drawing in Madeira

Over the last few months I have reorganized my website 2 times. I used to have all the paintings in just one large gallery of around 100 images. Like a timeline. Chronologically and almost religiously transparent, like making sure my artistic path is completely visible. But, sometimes I would remove a painting that I started… Read More »The trouble with curating yourself

When you’re in the midst of a forest, there’s an immersive quality to it. You’re completely encapsulated by the trees, leaves, the sounds, the scents. You become one with it. All the elements together are of an enormous complexity. You can’t copy this. Not with paint, or with the use of a camera. It is… Read More »Tension between memory and reality