This painting is part of a series of oil paintings in dressers. They refer to an emotion that arises when, just beyond the edge of awareness, a thought emerges—one we feel an urgent need to suppress.

‘The Wedding Rings’ is part of the series ‘Dressed in Secrets’ – oil paintings made in dressers. They refer to an emotion that arises when, just beyond the edge of awareness, a thought emerges—one we feel an urgent need to suppress.

‘Dressed in Secrets’ is a series of oil paintings in orphaned dressers. I find them at the trash in the streets. The cabinets usually are broken, but the drawers make a great canvas. I paint people you’d preferred not to meet in them.

‘Halfway’ is a memory of how I experienced the ways of my father in the ’70s and  ’80s.

‘Dressed in Secrets’ is a series of oil paintings in orphaned dressers. I find them at the trash in the streets. The cabinets usually are broken, but the drawers make a great canvas. I paint people you’d preferred not to meet in them.

This is ‘My Sacked Friend’ which perfectly depicts how I was feeling at that time.

Dani and Serge invited me to their loving home and ask me to make something for me. It could be anything, as long as it was a bull – hahaha, and I accepted. I made this bull using many layers of oil paint, each round adding a different colour to get these dark red-blood and saturated other colours. There’s blue in the black, yellow under the white.

I asked my friend Walley to make the frame: it should fit perfectly around this strange from. A frame exclusively made for this painting! We painted the backpart of the frame black and the front cakey – looks like gold because of the context of the colours. The wood is still visible everywhere, and Walley made a unique system to hang it.

In 2022 / 2023 we had some lessons in aquarel at Wackers – here are some things i made.

Honestly, design is only part of the job. It is also very important for the client to be a ‘good client’. What is a good client? Somebody who gives freedom and pays accordingly for time and skills.

Although my direct client was Anne Douwe Knobbe, who directed me more Frysian assignments my way, the end client was CEO Fedde Pronk, who was daring enough to have me design such eye catchers in his bank building and went along with the philosophy of the art. So Anne and i gave him this antique ‘door of perception’ that i silk printed with a message. Unfortunately i don’t have a better picture of this artwork.

So strictly speaking, this is not a painting but a silk print on an old door, but hey! there is only one exemplar and there are no copies.

The body is not the soul is not the spirit, says the nun.

I made this painting because I believe that there is a lot of racism in not helping refugees. I am trying to use humor as a tool to reflect on our social behaviour a lot, and although this painting is very sour, I am afraid that is true that a boat of Dutch white citizens would be saved easier and without hesitation – how different is the case when a boat full of refugees from Africa.

Portrait of my life partner as a nun, acryl on board, 30 x 30 cm

‘Family Matters’, for my friend André and his family, painted with blockprint on wood.

This is my first attempt to use oil paint – study for Wackers Acedemy.

For an artist, every image is political. One of my friends said this was a very ‘sour’ painting – and it is. I try to use ‘humor’ as a medium often – however sad or cruel reality is – sometimes it seems the only way to deal with sad facts that are beyond our control.

Laura as a nun – 2019, acryl on canvas, 27 x 27

Portait of Bowie, made for a friend.

Portrait of sir Onvlee, acryl on wood board, 45 x 45 cm