La Vie, La Folie Painting

This large painting, titled "La Vie,La Folie", I have made during a stay of three months in a mental hospital, as an artist in residence. A project organized by the Mental Hospital Altrecht, where four times a year an artist is being invited to stay in a pavilion, which has been changed into a studio. The atmosphere and surroundings of the different pavilions, lodging different psychiatric patients, has had a enormous influence on the painting.A substantieel portion of my work involves the human being, tramscience and the mysteries of life and death. The fine line between disturbed and normal states are all feelable. I have made a movie about the making of this painting. ( YouTube La Vie, La Folie).