Exhibition Perth
Last Sunday, my friend Wilma who lives in Perth, went to ‘Gallery O’ to check if the gallery actually exists. To check if my paintings really were hung. To check if they didn’t hang them upside down. And to check if the bronze sculpture really is shown too.
Agaricia in bronze
This bronze/glass/wood sculpture is based on the painting Agaricia Bullio, which was inspired by the surface texture of one of the Caribbean Lettuce Corals, Agaricia. These corals form thin plates as delicate as bone china and are extremely vulnerable to environmental changes. The trunk started life in white clay. Just like coral it has both […]
The making of Malus arvum
Metaphor
13 September 2007 When I was 12 I bought my first LP, paid from 3 weeks saved allowance. I still can dream every detail of the black cover with the colored insignia of Queen. With a determined patience I manually had copied and reduced the size of the insignia and pasted on the front of […]
Exquisite corpse: One dollar
This is the second part of my excorps project with Peter van Oostzanen. In the creation of this drawing we followed the same procedure as the first one, only this time the roles have been reversed. I started with the left halve, masked off most of it and next Peter finished the other halve.
The making of Protea madida
Exquisite corpse: Morning before the bbq
An excorps is 1 drawing created by 2 artists, in this case Peter van Oostzanen and me. Peter first drew half a paper (on the right side) and covered most of it before sending it to me. Working from the small visible part of his drawing, it was up to me to fill the other […]
Art cars
Even on a busy day the free spaces beside my car stayed empty the longest.
Wooden shoes
Here are 11 of my ‘designer’ wooden shoes, which are in collections & museums worldwide.
My relationship with a painting
When painting the ice landscape a friend asked me why I was more enthusiastic in making one painting than the other. In other words; why one painting comes to me easier than some other one?Some painters theatrically cry out that their paintings are their children and it’s a burden to sell them. For me, after […]
Dunedin
Yesterday, the transport box I had ordered in Auckland, was delivered to me. I will use it to provide the gallery in Dunedin who had approached me a few months ago. Their website shows very attractive art. Three of my paintings will be exhibited. After framing them they looked perfect, though that was not what […]