China Girl (2012) (sold)

This oil painting ‘China Girl (2012) is a tribute to old colonial post cards of exotic nudes. The yellow in this oil serves as the dominant factor.

Peggy (2011)

A live model that I painted at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands. The purporse was to meet realism from an expressionistic starting point.

Lust (2007) (sold)

Not a real surrealistic painting but almost ‘alternative realism’. A woman reading the newspapers. One used condom on the floor, half a bottle of wine with two empty glasses. One cup of coffee on bed.

Foetus (2004)

I love foreshortened positions and although the model is tucked in very tightly, through application of the golden ratio and positioning the model according it, the composition worked out fine.

Nude at sea (2004)

I thought a nude simply was not enough. I added the sea later.

Beatrix (1993)

A portrait of Beatrix, former queen of The Netherlands, serving as a portrait for the Leiden University Almanac 1993.

Oma (1991)

My grandmother when she was 84. I studied law but did never quit drawing and painting.

Grand ol’ lady (1990)

My grandmother Marie Kersten-Kuster dressed up with a hat and a scarf.

Oma (1990)

A drawing of my grandmother Marie Kersten-Kuster done in an impressionistic way.

Girl (1990)

A study of foreshortening of the human body.