Utah nr 1 Collage

Born in Geleen (the Netherlands), in 1986, moved to Amsterdam in 2008, currently living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Looking from space into earth, I capture landscape on paper and canvas and travel across the (digital) world. By zooming out, alienation takes place, which creates the question of what is abstract and figurative, which freedom I can claim when filling the landscape within the given frameworks such as water and land. The makeability (the intervention of man on nature) of the landscape versus the natural landscape and my interpretation of it, is an interesting search, of form and color, material and composition. The tension between the disappearance of nature and the preservation of the cultural landscape, in which changes take place through interaction of man, degradation and construction, for example urbanization, or the time-consuming meandering of a river or sedimentation of its surroundings, I observe and capture.