Into the light – 15-06-17

This pastel drawing ‘Into the Light – 15-06-17’ is something different. Enter the gloom or into the light?

Leiden – 27-12-16 (sold)

An impressionistic view on Leiden, where I studied. I am often fascinated my reflections in water and there are so many canals to be found over there. The movement of the water is what I put as a central theme in this drawing.

Schoonhoven – 15-12-16

I was attracted to the cubist quality of the planes that still offer a realistic / impressionistic view on a back alley in a small town called ‘Schoonhoven’, Netherlands.

Glass vase (2016)

A quick painting I made the morning before afternoon’s workshop ‘painting glass’.

The Ooij polder – 27-06-16 (sold)

A little pond situated in the Ooij Polder, Gelderland, Netherlands, near Nijmegen, caused me a lot of trouble. I saw human figures in the treeline and the water reflections but I had to come up with some subtlety so I wouldn’t attrack all the attention to the figures as well to the trees as a given realistic fact.

The last of the dutch elephants – 12-05-16 (sold)

Sometimes they roam about the streets of beach town Scheveningen, part of The Hague, at the North Sea.

Rotterdam – Coolhaven – 02-03-16 (sold)

A rather impressionistic view on Coolhaven (part of the harbour of Rotterdam). I made this drawing inspired by a trip to Rotterdam when I passed by the Coolhaven and I lost a contact that day so I saw it quite blurry.

Marlot – 18-02-16

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Marlot – 18-02-16’ is a surrealist one. I started out doing this one impressionistically then I saw the potential for something else

Hélène 2 – session 09-01-16

An expressionistic approach to live model sketching with one of my favorite models – done at Voorburg. Netherlands.

Hélène 1 – session 09-01-16

An impressionistic approach to live model sketching with one of my favorite models – done at Voorburg. Netherlands.