What's up Painting

I started my creative career as a designer in advertising. After working at a few advertising agencies in Amsterdam and later as a freelance designer, I founded my own advertising agency which I have managed for many years. I advised a wide range of companies and developed many creative concepts and design projects. Nevertheless advertising remains a form of ‘tied creativity’ and I always felt the desire for real creative freedom - especially painting. I started painting again in 1998 and it became an increasingly significant part of my life. For a long time, I have been fascinated by the many forms of decay, which is the main theme in many of my paintings. For example, old, abandoned industrial buildings. They have no historical value and are often ruined, but they do have a fascinating gloomy beauty. However, due to increasing social contrasts in this world, the focus of my work has changed. It is not the buildings that are the major factor in my work, but rather man in his gloomy state of decay. In recent years my works - including recently large charcoal drawings - have become reflections on the current time with the rapid digital developments and the associated social behavior or the tension inside relationships, also forms of decay.