Biography
For 30 years I have worked with a combination of collage and painting and
I'm still as fascinated by the surprising possibilities of combination that
can arise in this method of creating.
I always start the work with preparing a workspace by scraping out paint in
several layers until I feel unrestricting possibilities have arisen.
After this the artistic process can start in an interacting combination of
painting and collage which most often takes place at the floor of the
studio where I have easy access to collage materials spread out over the
floor wherein I use trial and error by adding and removing chosen material.
By doing the work on the floor I also have a good overview and can let the
process take its time.
I also have to say that I am enormously interested in the very process, as
a sort of end in itself where the result often comes as a total surprise.
Normally I work on several projects at the same time which enables me to
complete several works in a serial process where some sort of coherent
narrative can arise.
I never know in advance what I will make, I instead test the different
possibilities which arise during the process.
However, I can in retrospect sense an existential fundament and sometimes
also an ironic element in my works. My inspiration is to create as
suggestive an expression as possible where the picture, without synthetic
means or strained shortcomings, can stand on its own.
