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Harvest
This series is about crops captured before or after harvest. Crops so common 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 a savoy cabbage approaching harvest, maize, beans or onions put to dry, a green cabbage covered by dew drops, all are gorgeous in their own right. I am in the process of further developing this series.
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) especially, 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.
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 and soft rolling hills, its endless open space of the savannah, the red earth, beautiful lakes, and characteristic umbrella trees. This series is about that landscape. I started this series in water colour paint, then switched to soft pastel.
