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.

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.

Portait of Bowie, made for a friend.

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