Realistic
Flora
I love all things flora - trees, plants, flowers, seeds - their shapes, lines and colours. Their natural elegance. My love of the honesty plant (in Dutch: Judaspenning) and of sunflowers, especially when they are in a state of decay, prompted me to create series on both. This Flora category also contains stand-alone paintings of individual flowers.
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Harvest
This series is about crops just before or right after harvest: onions, maize or beans put to dry, a white cabbage covered by the early morning dew, chard with its bright red and yellow stems, deep pink-brown aubergines still on the stem accompanied by their soft-coloured flowers. Crops that one easily takes for granted. But which when watched attentively are of such an unexpected, stunning innate beauty that they make me marvel.
Landscape
During the years I lived in Africa I fell in love with the African landscape, in particular that of the Great African Rift Valley with its rugged escarpments alternated by soft rolling hills, the endless space of the savannah, the red earth, the beautiful lakes, the animals. This series is about that landscape. Most of these paintings were made with water colour paint, with which I worked for a some time.
