Sans titre – 10-06-16
In my ever quest for finding styles and new ways of rendering I found myself challenged by this picture of Ingrid Bergman, famous Swedish-American moviestar and celebrity of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and part of the 1970s.
Furia sunbathing – 16-05-16 (sold)
In retrospective this is an ode to my deceased cat who died in November 2016. This is her, reclining in the sun, a couple of months earlier, when she was still going strong.
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.
Nude – 07-03-16
A classic study of the female corpse in pastel. I put the stress on the high lights.
Nude – 04-03-16 (sold)
A pastel that was lingering about in my studio for years until I completed it. I went for a strong purple / yellow contrast. It’s now with a private collector in China.
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.
Pearls – 01-03-16 (sold)
This was commissioned work and the purpose was to capture sensuality and through cubist forms get the round female shapes.
Nude study – session of 20-02-16
Just practising my view and hands.
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
Julia Filament – 01-02-16 (sold)
Portrait of my dear colleague and friend Julia Filament who has a very round face, so I felt myself forced to break her up in straight lines and planes.
