About - kunstsite2011

My paintings have realistic elements, but above all an alienating atmosphere. My works in recent years show brightly colored landscapes and weird plant species which I call my ‘psychedelic gardens’. I consider my work to be an exploration of the ways we experience our environment.

I am always trying to achieve high contrast within an unlimited color range.
Due to my time-consuming technique I’m only able to create about 10 landscapes a year.

I love painting at night in my rural studio setting with no distractions – just the call of the ruru (a New Zealand native owl) to keep me company.

I thrive on the repetitiveness of my patterns and feel the calming aura in concentrating with a small brush in my ‘psychedelic garden’. I love working with geometric patterns.

Before I started painting on canvas, my cars have always been willing victims to this passion. Consequently patterns, natural or artificial, form the foundation of a lot of my images.

In my blog you can find where my inspiration come from. What is happening behind the scenes. The progress of a few commisions. See what's on the easel now.
You can read about some special publications. Or what kind of other artistic things are distracting my mind.

Awards

Received a grant of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation INC. 2010

Finalist (and one of the leading 4 in the peoples choice) New Zealand portrait contest 2010

Finalist NZ Painting and Printmaking Award 2007.

Finalist James Wallace Art Awards 2006.

Second prize, Tivoli Audio PAL Case design contest 2006.

Previous exhibitions:

2002 Galerie Kanaalweg, Heiloo, The Netherlands
2003 Galerie Collect-art, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
2003 Artiade, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
2004 ‘Week van de Zee’, Egmond, The Netherlands
2004 Galerie Afterdaan, Hoogeveen, The Netherlands
2005 Kasteel de Hooge Vuursche, The Netherlands
2005 Necura expo, Basel, Switzerland
2005 Fisher Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
2006 Pataka Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
2006 The Artists Room, Dunedin, New Zealand
2007 Artspost gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand
2007 Koru gallery, Hong Kong
2007 Gallery O, Perth, Australia
2008 McGee's gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008 Dreamscapes exhibition Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 Art Melbourne, art fair, Australia
2009 McGee’s gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2010 New Zealand portrait gallery, Wellington
2010 'Surrealism Now', Coimbra, Portugal
2010 Culture Inside Eutopia, Luxembourg
2010 McGee’s gallery, Melbourne, Australie
2011 Arundel Room, West Sussex, UK