About my work

There are two lights: one in your head and one that lights the room. I paint the first one. My paintings are lit by the light of imagination, the real light.

The places I visit in my work are a product of my dreams, that are also bathed in this light. It is an emotional light, that can convey a feeling, a mood or an idea. It is the light of nostalgia, of a distant memory, the light of the magical garden of childhood.

An image may come to me completed, can I hold it in my head, finish the painting before it fades? I don’t like to ask too many questions, to edit or filter. If I do, I am always left with just dust in my hands, or a less interesting painting .

I listen to the still voice within, the intuition, for guidance. The thinking I leave to the viewer. Meaning, might sometimes be wanting, or reason obscure, but there is often a power, a luminosity in a successful work that resists all clarification, that I would never exchange for the most carefully composed idea.

About the mini's ...

Most of my paininting are painted on canvas. In 2005 I started making paintings on wood. Like the ones on canvas, these paintings are made with oil paint but they are quite small in size, some no bigger than 20 x 20 cm.

For me, making these small paintings on such a smooth surface is a very good method to quickly put down an idea without having to think about it too much. This allows me to stay closer to the original feeling and gives the paintings an almost sketchy quality.