About Me

I living and work in the village of Wijnaldum, Friesland, Netherlands. Studio also in Kingston NY, USA.
 
Geometric Work
Geometric work is my mainstay. The Kader, Cylinder and Diad Series.  My alma mater, the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, was for a large part modeled after the Bauhaus. That influence, specially  the role of geometry in art, has always stayed with me. Jan Rietveld, the son of Gerrit Rietveld, was my architecture teacher and  Jan van der Vaart was my ceramics teacher. For me geometry is the gateway between the visible and the invisible. The geometric forms are the basis for free and intuitive chromatic exploration.

Biographical Work
My photography and realist painting is focused on the area where I was born and raised, namely in Friesland near the Wadden Sea. The paintings are leaning towards abstraction and carry for me a lot of emotion. I am from farmer and fisherman stock. The Frisian landscape and the Wadden Sea are deeply imbedded in my being.  I traverse the entire Wadden Sea in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.