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Realistic

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Harvest

This series is about crops, captured before or after harvest. Crops so common as part of our daily meals that one can easily take them for granted. But which when looked at closely and attentively are of such an unexpected, stunning innate beauty that they make me marvel. Be it onions, maize or beans put to dry, a green cabbage covered by the early morning dew, artichokes huddled together in a crate. I am in the process of developing this series, dat includes pastel paintings and charcoal drawings. 

Flora

I adore all things flora - trees, plants and especially flowers. Their shapes, lines and colours, their natural elegance. They touch me particularly when they are in a state of decay. My love of the honesty plant (in Dutch: judaspenning), whose seed pods come in such a variety of colours, and of sunflowers, in their final stages of life prompted me to create series on both. 

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Honesty plant (judaspenning) seed pods at the start of the plant's decay phase

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