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Underworld, silkscreen prints, 2021-’22

The Underworld silkscreen prints series is printed on fabrics in layers using natural inks. At the start of the Covid pandemic in 2019 I have started to experiment with making my own natural inks, mainly from plants. The layers create depth and texture which are enhanced by embroidery. Moving shadows & dancing light spots.

Tagged With: landscape, reflections, shadows, silkscreen, textiles

‘t Fort (a drawing installation)

‘T Fort, Monster, 1998.

A drawing installation in an empty house full of memories, waiting to be upgraded and occupied again. Based, but warped in reconstruction, on my own memories and childhood photographs.

Pencil and crayon drawing on wall and floor and sealed ballpoint drawings and a wet toy rabbit.

Tagged With: childhood, drawings, self-portrait, shadows

Herinneringstekeningen, 1998-2009

Memories drawings – 1998-2006.

Ballpoint drawings on kite paper.

My own childhood memories form the base for these drawings, triggered by photographs and drawings from that period. (most of) The drawings are made on transparent kite paper to relate to the furtiveness and inaccuracy of memories. They are drawn in layers in ballpoint so that they too, as memories do, change, bleach out and disappear as time goes by.

bijna bedtijd, 2006, ballpoint drawing on kite paper, 100x75 cm
droom, 1998, 75x100 cm., ballpoint drawing on kite paper
klimrek, 1998, 75x100 cm., ballpoint drawing on kite paper
tekenen, 1998, 75x100 cm., ballpoint drawing on kite paper
telefoneren, 2006, 75x100 cm., ballpoint drawing on kite paper
At the beach, 1998, 75x100 cm., ballpoint, drawing on kite paper
Dikkertje Dap, 1998, 75x100 cm., ballpoint, drawing on kite paper
Monster Kareltje, 1998, 75x100 cm., ballpoint, drawing on kite paper

 

 

Tagged With: portrait, self-portrait, shadows

Freaks of nature, 200-2001

Freaks of nature / Growths – 2000-2001.

Pencil drawings on paper.

A series of drawings made after a trip through Australia in 2000. The light and climate in Australia is hard and that creates many contrasts. In these drawings I looked at the Australian landscape on a micro-level to explore the following dualistic values of it:
soft and hard
light and dark
sharp and vague.

I took small natural objects as a starting point: photographed or taken as a souvenir.

butterfly 1, 2000, pencil drawing, 75x100 cm.
no title, 2000, pencil drawing, 75x100 cm.
shell form, 2000, pencil drawing, 75x100 cm.
soft-hard form, 2001, pencil drawing, 75x100 cm.
coral form, 2000, pencil drawing, 75x100 cm.
form with horns, 2000, pencil drawing, 75x100 cm.
shell jelly fish, 2000, pencil drawing, 75x100 cm.
tongue form 2, 2000, pencil drawing, 75x100 cm.

 

 

Tagged With: drawings, landscape, shadows

Shadow drawings, 1998

Shadow drawings – 1997/1998.

Drawings in pencil or ballpoint on paper, kite paper (transparent) or directly on the wall (or floor).

The drawings are trying to capture the shifting fleetfulness and movement of shadows. Wherever there is light, there is shadow. You can be in it and it feels deep and endless, but just a little light will dispel it. In this series I have experimented to get depth in the drawing while keeping it flat. In june 1998 I created a shadow-memory-drawing installation for the exhibition ‘t Fort in a house at the Krusemanstraat, Den Haag.

Branches, 1998, pencil drawing on paper & kite paper, 60x85 cm.
Fence 1, 1998, pencil drawing on paper, 75x100 cm
no title, 1998, ballpoint drawing on paper, 60x85 cm
shadow drawing installation at t' Fort, Den Daag, 1998
Ilse in the shower, drawing installation at t' Fort, Den Haag, 1998, ballpoint drawing on kite paper, sealed

Tagged With: landscape, shadows

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