Wijk bij Duurstede – 20-05-19

On my walk through Wijk bij Duurstede in Utrecht, Netherlands, I saw these sheep in waving grass that ran all the way down from the dike I was on to the slate tree line.

Berg en Dal – 17-05-19

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 17-05-19’ is about one of my dearest childhood memories. Walking down the N70 route was pure magic.

Laren – 30-04-19

When I Laren near the Singer Laren Museum I saw a couple of horses and perhaps they were the same couple as drawn by me in ‘hommage to a dead horse’ last year.

Veere – 04-04-19

Last weekend I was walking through Veere at Zeeland, Netherlands, a little pittoresque town. I returned to my car when I saw the sign ‘city wall tour’ and I decided to take that one and then, when I climbed onto them, I saw this great composition that reminded me of Caravaggio’s ‘Descent from the cross’, a perfect staircase composition – triangles within one big triangle.

Roundism – 26-03-19

The sheets on my duvet on which my model lay show nice checkered patterns. Her body contrasted them quite nicely and I decided to exploit this to the max.

Olympia – 22-03-19

Before last Tuesday’s model session I thought of a great pose I instructed to my model.

Voorschoten – 11-03-19

Last year I was walking through sunny Voorschoten, a town in the north to where I live.

Mira (2019) (sold)

Mira (2019) (sold) A commission for a drawing of a young woman that I already painted 9 years ago. Then a teenager, now a young woman and an excellent way to study the same face grown up. Special request was it to use the same color combination as in my drawing ‘sans titre – 06-10-16’ […]

Roundism – 16-01-19​

Last August international dancer and model Julia Gómez Avilés came over to my studio where we, together with fellow artist Julia Filement, had a wonderful live session.

One thing in another – 05-01-19

In my egyptian series I try to excavate treasures from the past.