Born in 1949 in Maasland, a small village near Rotterdam. Now living in Apeldoorn, in the centre of the Netherlands. I started as a professional painter in 1989. I graduated at the Academy of Art of Nunspeet. Nature and landscapes are regulary used as a theme in my paintings Not realistic, but changed as I feel how it should or could be. Using constructive lines and a warm richly coloured palette I create my own reality. My interest of nature is still there, but the ancient architectonic world forms an important part of my paintings.
At this time my paintings are more spirutual and are shared in the theme of Gateways. I'm trying to shape an alternative reality, which, for me, has a deeper mystical meening. With a minimum of forms and colours I am searching for an image that gives me answers to my emotions and feelings of that particulary moment. One moment I choose a realistic starting point and deform it to a composition that gives a free and expressionistic view of reality. The other moment I am starting the painting with filling out the background with coloured planes. Intuative, as I progress with my painting, an image develops it self. All my energy, emotion, imagination and dreams comes to reality and are captured on the canvas. These last paintings are more colourfull and more abstracter.
To paint is an important part of my live. On a regulary base my works are showed in exhibitions from 1993 until now.