Bettie Page – 24-02-17
Another drawing by me of Bettie Page returning to surrealism again. After scrutinizing her features and estimating what her character would have been like I came to an inescapable conclusion. Eggs, rabbits, dogs and snakes could be derived from her and were essential for her expression.
The chase – 20-09-16 (sold)
This one is based on the swimming pool full of optical illusions at Museum ‘Voorlinden’ at Wassenaar, The Netherlands.
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.
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.
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.
Bettie Page – 18-04-16 (sold)
A surrealistic graphite pencil drawing of Bettie Page, American pin-up and 1950s celebrity.
Nude – 08-04-16
Once in a while I want to do something else like this one.
Gaia – 16-03-16 (sold)
A worked out oil surrealistic painting variation of the last of the ’13 variations on the same theme’ graphite pencil drawing series.
Marlot – 18-02-16
Marlot Forest is around the corner from where I live and once I saw a woman and a cow there.
Strange Goings On At ‘t Meertje – 10-02-16 (sold)
Sometimes it happens that you see faces in trees and water. Such was the case when I came to ‘t Meertje, a place near Ooij and Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands