I grew up visiting cities and their buildings, visiting museums and performances and getting to know different cultures. Because of my father's love for architecture and my mother's passion and love for painting, ceramics and cultures.
Because I grew up with this upbringing and my parents surrounded themselves with people from the arts, artists, actors and architects, I learned to look around me. And given that creating beauty gives enormous freedom. Creating art entails both a freedom and a struggle.
When I wake up in the morning I am overjoyed like a girl in love with butterflies in my stomach when I know I am going to paint today. The ideas overflow and then unrest arises, I have to start painting NOW. It is an urge that can almost be compared to having to eat and drink to stay alive. Then the battle begins, the canvas is white, I choose a color and start painting. Often without a clue. I often compare it to clay, I model until something interesting is created and I move along with it. I choose another color and continue. After the battle has been won, a dance of moving along and further modeling ensues. I work very chaotically, grab that brush and that canvas and that paint and then that brush again, splashes fly around, I take a step back and look at the canvas.
It has come to life, I get butterflies in my stomach again, the canvas is starting to become mine. I see where to go. So painting for me is feeling the freedom and a fight, but also an opportunity to step out of the everyday and make something that makes the world a lot more interesting for me. My head is off while painting and the hours fly by. It's like I'm in a trans. At the end of the day I get out of that trans and I'm exhausted, but satisfied!
I am a mother of two sweet girls aged four and almost three. We've been together non-stop for three years and we've taught each other a lot. It is wonderful to see those creatures grow up and they each have their own character. Raising also has to do with a fight and moving along. I look at what they need to give them the space to develop and they both need a different way to do that. The eldest needs structure and the youngest needs space to play on his own. Both are very creative in their own way. The eldest also goes crazy with painting, thick blobs of beautiful colors on top of each other! And the youngest has very fine motor skills and looks at what the colors do, she makes very nice little detailed scribbles. Beautiful to see with both!
For the last ten years I have been very interested in Vincent van Gogh and his work. In 2010 I followed him to the South of France and stayed in Nîmes for a while, where I met artists from France and Ireland. There is a beautiful work of mine hanging with an art collector from Nîmes, whom I thank for his hospitality. And I exchanged a work with an artist. I visited the place where Vincent van Gogh was in an institution and painted the view there. Including the blossom trees and the lavender fields. Wonderful to see how he did the color build-up and the strokes of the brush make the canvas very lively.
My first collection of abstract canvases will be online at the end of February. It will be about six canvases of different sizes, the colors that mainly emerge are blue and yellow and are inspired by nature. Register and stay informed of the exact date and time that the canvases will be online. After registration you will receive a beautiful Art Print of your choice!
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