Soest, Netherlands, Netherlands
I started my creative career as a designer in advertising. After working at a few advertising agenci...
About the artist
Joined In 2013
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About the artist
Joined In 2013
(14 Followers)
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 form...
- Groepsexpositie Kunst op Stand, Koninklijke stallen Paleis Soestdijk; zaterdag 18 en zondag 19 september 2021
- Uitwisselingstentoonstelling Treff 4, Wilhelm Morgner Museum, Soest - Duitsland; 20 juni t/m 15 augustus 2021
- Expositie 'OnvoltooidVerledenTijd' met Soraya van Houwelingen en Chris Rodenburg; Galerie HazArt, Soest; 29 mei t/m 26 juni 2021
- Solotentoonstelling De Klinker, Markt 3, Zeist; 12 februari t/m 30 juli 2020; schilderijen
- Solotentoonstelling KunstenHuis Zeist, Egelinglaan 2b, Zeist; van 11 september t/m 6 oktober 2019
- Duo-tentoonstelling 'Verbindung' met Chris Rodenburg (objecten); Kunstsaal Kunstverein Kreis Soest (Duitsland); 14 juni t/m 14 juli 2019;
- Uitwisselingstentoonstelling Treff 2019; Galerie HazArt, Soest; 25 mei t/m 29 juni 2019
- Duo-expositie bij Bakker & Spees, Amsterdam; 17 oktober 2018 t/m 17 januari 2019, met Chris Rodenburg
- Kunst im Bunker 2018, 'Gesamtkunstwerk' met Chris Rodenburg, Soest - Duitsland; 15 juli t/m 26 augustus 2018
- Galerie HazArt, expositie 'Verwantschap' 1 november 2017 t/m 20 januari 2018.
- Groepstentoonstelling in Kerk van Heesselt. WaardArt, 23 - 30 september 2017.
- Thematentoonstelling 'Macht und Pracht', Kunstkirche Josefshaus, Wettringen – D, z...