Lady on a chair Collage

I am a visual artist from Leiden, a city in the Netherlands and I love paper. It's my main material. The subject of my work is the investigation of people, the places around them and the traces they leave behind. I use images as inspiration. I enjoy making use of everyday materials such as paper, old bags, textiles, photographs, handwritten notes or messages and other similar articles. In recent years I have experimented with different techniques including sewing, waxing, glueing, painting to explore the method of 'making a collage'. My recent work consists of large canvases with torn paper in combination with oil paint. I show abandoned interiors and single figures. Various materials are integrated into the composition and combined with the use of oil paint to form the finished painting.