Styles
Style development in self portraits (1990-now )
The academic art studies of the female body become an unexpected way to explore my self image. Via deep down, it goes higher up and sometimes this wave repeats.
Eventually creating art becomes a conscious way of healing my body, spirit and soul.
(Charcoal & crayon on paper; Oil & Acrylic on stretched canvas)
Experiments
Spots, dots & Spaces ( 1998-2000)
Experiments first with brushes and later with hands in oil paint and acrylic paint. Playing with dots and colour fields, lead to different spaces, layers and perspectives. Creating new worlds with hints to fantasy landscapes and forest scapes.
(Oil & acrylic paint on stretched canvas)
Freestyle
Freestyle becoming my own style (2000-2012)
Continuing the free style experiments painting with hands to explore the boundaries of the surfaces of the paint, results in reflections of Water, Earth & Nature elements as to be seen with the eyes, that almost tip over to other dimensions as to be seen with eyes of the soul.
(Oil & Acrylic paint on stretched canvas 100x150 cm)
Healing
Lion energies & Chacra energies (2012-2017)
Experiencing so much Joy and Happiness in ‘playing ‘ with pens, crayons & paints results in a healing side effect. While volunteering in a big cat sanctuary in South Africa, lions come lying down close to the fence to absorb the happy bubble. One lioness in particular was found to be healed after 1,5 year drawing next to her. The drawings about the powerful energy and love of the lioness and other lions look rather shamanic, showing a hidden world behind the veil.
(Conté crayon on black paper 70x100 cm)
Spirit Realms
Bird flights and worlds beyond (2017-now)
Painting is no longer an experiment but a way of living, breathing colour and celebrating spirit, a bit like a bird flying into the ephemere. Being aware of the advantage of a painter to materialise the unseen world behind the veil, like singers are able to bring the sacred into sound. One can judge for one self if the healing side effects are working in one or another way.
(Drawings 25x25 & 70x100 Acrylic on canvas 100x100)