to my creative journey – a continuous exploration shaped by life, experience, and the layered depths of the imagination.
Seeker – Observer – Amplifier
As a seeker, I am driven by curiosity, questions, and the influences that make life endlessly fascinating.
As an observer, I am drawn to the beauty, vulnerability, and social realities embedded within existence of life.
As an amplifier, I transform these impressions into visual forms that deepen emotion, thought, and awareness beyond the superficial surface of reality.
Material and Physicality
Since the beginning of my artistic practice, I have always felt deeply connected to jute. Its texture, purity, and tactile presence resonated with me in an almost instinctive way. I often prepared my canvases through complex classical emulsions, allowing the material itself to become an essential part of my work.
Since 2017, the interaction between transparent sheets – which I consider a symbol of the contemporary – and the ancient, tactile presence of jute has become a central focus within my research.
After a lifetime of searching, experimenting, and moving through different styles, techniques, I gradually arrived at a form in which I truly feel grounded, a visual language that allows me to translate everything that concerns, moves, or fascinates me.
An Ongoing Journey
What lies ahead is no longer the search for another direction, but the deeper exploration and development of this essential core.
This website presents a curated selection of works, concepts, and ongoing investigations, an entry point into the continuously evolving landscape of my creative journey.
In 1975, I held my first exhibition at sociëteit Het Park. The response was encouraging, there was strong interest, and many works were sold.
This was more than a success; it was a necessary condition for continuing as an artist in a context without social support systems, where sustaining a practice depended directly on public engagement and sales.
This work belongs to a series that marks the result of my first exploration of transparent sheets and jute, where two contrasting materials reinforce each other from their unique physicality
My research into the interaction of materials gradually led me toward this visual language, a direction that resonated naturally with my artistic development.
More than a new approach, it opened a space for continuity, growth, and deeper exploration.
Projects such as Boundless Mutual Connection Through Art and The Intellectual Decapitation of Suriname extend beyond the individual artwork, gradually
developing their own internal dynamics.
With LUMORAS, a more intuitive path toward awareness is explored, where material and form
engage the imagination and create space for reflection on existence, continuity, evolution, and the fragile relationship between humanity and nature.
With MEMOS, poetry, color, rhythm, and form converge into a visual language balancing emotion and composition, intuition and structure.