Berg en Dal 05 (2014) (Sold)

Impressionistic treescape pastel drawing

This pastel drawing ‘Berg en Dal 05 (2014)’ was my 5th of this enchanting place. An impressionist view with a beautiful slanted tree.

Berg en Dal 03 (2014) (sold)

Expressionistic treescape pastel drawing

A rather expressionistic approach to one of my favourite spots in The Netherlands – Berg en Dal, near Nijmegen where I grew up.

Japanese Garden 2 (2014)

impressionist landscape pastel drawing

This pastel drawing ‘Japanese Garden 2 (2014)’ is the second of two pastels. An second impressionist view but this time on the temple building.

Japanese Garden 1 (2014)

impressionist landscape pastel drawing

An impressionistic view on the Japanese Garden at estate ‘Clingendael’ at The Hague, Netherlands. Done in hatched strokes.

Gemeentemuseum 05 (2014)

cubistic museum pastel drawing

This is one of the pastel drawings I made of the Gemeentemuseum at The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, construed by the famous dutch architect Berlage.

Gemeentemuseum 03 (2014)

cubistic museum pastel drawing

The Gemeentemuseum at The Hague, Netherlands is one of the leading museums in the world with the biggest Mondriaan collection (among others ‘Victory Boogie Woogie’, admired by Barrack Obama at the spot) I felt doing a series turning Berlage’s architecture into cubism. This is one of them.

Gemeentemuseum 02 (2014)

cubistic museum pastel drawing

The second one of the series, turning to abstraction already. Still a lot of atmospheric depth and perspectives.

Gemeentemuseum 01 (2014)

cubistic museum pastel drawing

The first of the ‘Gemeentemuseum series’. This one still is in the recondo mode, investigating what I could do with the subject. I had a vague idea of cubism because there’s a lot in it and the building itself is a complex of cubes. A kind of ode to Mondriaan or would that be too corny?

Cubistic Nude 07 (2014) (sold)

Cubistic nude pastel drawing

With this pastel I was unfolding my way of cubism with different means than graphite only. This one is in Scotland in the hands of a private collector.

Estate ‘Reigersbergen’ 01 (2014)

Pastel drawing of a tree in a wooded area near Haagse Bos, rendered in expressive colors and dynamic strokes.

A pastel drawing of Estate ‘Reigersbergen’ adjacent to the Haagse Bos in quite some impressionistic moves. You can see me walk there very often because I live close by. Because of my artistic activities and my need to keep up my condition I take 10.000 steps per day.