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The paintings in the series invite immersion in the colourful elegance of nature in different seasons. The emphasis lies in the tensions between warm and cool colour, dynamic and metric rhythm, as well as the foreground and background of a landscape. For a painter these phenomena can only become visible by means of close observation, by looking ‘beyond’ the elements in nature, a process embodied in the paintings in which every brushstroke forms a meaningful entity in the emerging whole.

2021- Conversations with Nature

(2021 - 2022)

The paintings in the series invite immersion in the colourful elegance of nature in different seasons. The emphasis lies in the tensions between warm and cool colour, dynamic and metric rhythm, as well as the foreground and background of a landscape. For a painter these phenomena can only become visible by means of close observation, by looking ‘beyond’ the elements in nature, a process embodied in the paintings in which every brushstroke forms a meaningful entity in the emerging whole.
The immersive quality of these paintings embodies the desire to be absorbed in the magic of nature. Inspired by sunlight filtering through trees – Komorebi in Japanese – they emphasize the interplay between light and form. Other paintings examine at which point an ‘abandonment’ of a work of art can take place at the earliest. Not because the process of making has become tiring or annoying, but in the spirit of Paul Valéry, who wrote that “a work of art is never truly completed but abandoned”.

2020-2021: Forest Views and Water Landscapes

(2020 - 2021)

The immersive quality of these paintings embodies the desire to be absorbed in the magic of nature. Inspired by sunlight filtering through trees – Komorebi in Japanese – they emphasize the interplay between light and form. Other paintings examine at which point an ‘abandonment’ of a work of art can take place at the earliest. Not because the process of making has become tiring or annoying, but in the spirit of Paul Valéry, who wrote that “a work of art is never truly completed but abandoned”.
These paintings attempt to find order in the chaos of conflicts in nature: between warm and cool colour, dynamic and metric rhythm, foreground and background, positive and negative form. These phenomena only become visible by means of close observation and looking ‘beyond’ the elements in nature. Some of the paintings are deliberately left ‘unfinished’ as to show this process of ‘seeing-feelingly’, with every brushstroke forming a meaningful entity in the emerging whole.

2018-2019: Ways of Seeing

(2018 - 2019)

These paintings attempt to find order in the chaos of conflicts in nature: between warm and cool colour, dynamic and metric rhythm, foreground and background, positive and negative form. These phenomena only become visible by means of close observation and looking ‘beyond’ the elements in nature. Some of the paintings are deliberately left ‘unfinished’ as to show this process of ‘seeing-feelingly’, with every brushstroke forming a meaningful entity in the emerging whole.