Changing colours
City People 7 oil on canvas, 100 x 135 cm
City People 5 oil on canvas, 100 x 135 cm
City People 3 oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm
People waiting for a tram 3 oil on canvas, 100 x 135 cm
People waiting for a tram IV woodcut, 70 x 60 cm
City People 8 oil on canvas, 100 x 60 cm
Look at it 3 oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
Dance woodcut, 45 x 55 cm
City People 27 mixed media, 50 x 65 cm
City People 28 mixed media, 50 x 65 cm
Remembering Gujarat 3 mixed media, 35 x 50 cm
City People 42 mixed media, 50 x 65 cm
City People 43 mixed media, 50 x 65 cm
Backside with triangels mixed media, 50 x 65 cm
Landscape with a triangle oil on canvas, 100 x 135 cm
Composition 2.2 mixed media, 35 x 50 cm
Document from far away mixed media, 50 x 65 cm
Sliced landscape oil on canvas, 80 x 90 cm
Structures 6 acrylics on paper, 50 x 65 cm
Reclamation mixed media, 50 x 65 cm
Cloud 2 acrylics on paper, 50 x 65 cm
Series 4.9 lithography, 50 x 65 cm
Series 5.1 lithography, 40 x 50 cm
After my education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam I made paintings, woodcuts and lithographs with "human beings" as the theme. I tried to explore expressions of emotion in relation to different situations. I painted and drew people as figurants in an urban environment or as dancers, as chess players and as admirers of visual art.
Then my work developed into abstraction quite quickly. The colours and the gesture of painting became the main forms of expression. With the use of transparent layers of paint I showed my affinity with graphic arts. I experimented a lot with monoprint and collage.
I started to make big travels. In volcanic Sicily I discovered the influence of ancient cultures and saw traces of the classical world in Greece, early christianity in Turkey and Moorish art in Andalusia. An extended stay in Gujarat (India) left a deep impression. As a result, my paintings became brighter and warmer in colour.
Amsterdam 1983-1990