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911  I heard the news in my office and like many people I could not believe it. Again and again we saw the same video moments on television. HORRIBLE-CRUEL-TERRORISTS-MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE DIED. But my involvement with development issues over many years makes me see the other side too. Why do people hate the leading Western economic and military powers so much that they are capable of such a crime? How can this event change our thinking about the world and make us better world citizens? What about all the people who starve every day when we buy expensive non-fat chips? What about all the millions who died during wars or dictatorships in Cambodia, Rwanda, Chile, Guatemala or Afganistan? Then the cruel media law counts: 1 Dutch (Volendam) equals 10 Europeans or North Americans (New York) equals 100 East Europeans (Kosovo) equals 1000 Africans, Latin Americans or Asians.
Since childhood, I have made paintings and drawings. Since 2001,  I have followed classes the studios of Ina van Hoeneveld in Lekkerkerk. www.atelierlokaal.nl 

Most of my work is with acylic painting, but lately I have also started oil painting. Often I combine different techniques and I frequently have used collage materials. My work started very colourful. 

Three ladies: mixed technique (50 x 80) (foto stuur ik nog op)

This canvas Cambodia representsed three dancing women on the beach in Scheveningen. Inspiration came from a dance performance . The collage part was inspired by "El Parque Guell" of Gaudi in Barcelona. . See photographs below.

My work has become more spatial. This work hangs separately and is two-sided. In this work I test the space there further finished by making a breach in the wood and to metal doorheen fly to let. electricity wires give even more tension to the work. How much can one work take? 

911: Where were you on 11 September 2001? The moment that the planes entered in the Twin Towers?. The pictures of that drama are in everybodies mind. This entered in our collective history. This moment I reflected for the first time during a workshop action painting just after the event.. Throwing painting throw against the two torens. It was a way to download my emotions. Action painting is a very powerful method to express your inner emotions.  What did I write down to friends:

Since I started sculpure, my work has become more basic: less colours and more attention to form and structure.

 

For my second exposition to be held in March 2007, I have been inspired by the fjords in Norway. In the summer holiday of 2006 we have been there on holiday. Overwhelming nature full with stories of enchanted lakes and mean trolls. In each cliff and waterfall a story is hidden. Glaciers and snow peaks, wild streams and quiet vallies. Blue and white are the colours when I remember  Norway. 

These transformations from persons to landscape are also evident in my work. 

This journey of art is about communication. Each piece act as a transmittor, a mirror of higher reality. Although often inspired by images from photos or observations, the message comes from inside. The speak to the viewer at a deep level: Art for Change.

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