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While maintaining the opposites in my painting I’m looking for synthesis, unity, balance and harmony in one image. A recurring theme is chaos & order, which nowadays I translate into the concepts rhythm & structure. For me chaos & order are no longer incompatible. I look at them as two forces, which cannot exist without each other. They both are elements in a process that rhythmically and according to fixed patterns encourage movement, change and renewal, leading to an organic and dynamic order while retaining contrasts. My paintings and drawings form the imagination of this process.
Although I work with various different materials, I usually paint with 'ordinary' decorator's paint. This type of paint is slow, and yet it has a more or less fixed form. It flows and carries on running even after the paint has been applied. I hardly use brushes. Not from a sense of principle, but because when I use a brush, I am inclined to give structure to the canvas, sometimes too quickly. I prefer to give 'chaos' a fair chance by pouring or spraying the paint onto the canvas or letting it flow in various different ways. After that I often throw the paint off balance by modelling it using a hairdryer, paint stripper or a gas burner. Under my instructions and within the boundaries I set, the paint then searches rhythmically and in an interrelated way for a new order and a new balance.

Since a few years ‘composition’ gets more important in my work. In my paintings texture, color, form and structure ‘speak’ their own language. Apart from their ultimate form, in which they give account of my personal working process, they are in their construction in this way increasingly ‘readable’. The coarse, amorfe shapes represent by example chaos. De dot stands for an occurrence and a lath of dots raster for interaction between a series of occurences or a network of relationships. The line is the path; sometimes right, mostly not. The circle symbolizes the universal and the square an the rectangle are standing for confrontation, also starting all over again. Colors have their own meaning as well. Red symbolizes the feminine nature, white the maculine nature. Purple or violet are standing for reflection and modesty. At last my flower-shapes refer to perfection.

However in my ‘language’ a form, line or dot cannot seen on their own. Esthetism of the composition is primarily not my goal as well. Much more important I consider the balance between the one form and the other, the way they relate and interact with each other.”

Something round, something not

2006
Oil on canvas
180x180 cm

Four women

2006
Oil on canvas
180x180 cm

I apologize

2006
Oil on canvas
140x140 cm

Life is a series of moments

2006
Oil on canvas
100x100 cm

Haastig zwermt zich wat waar i

2006
Oil on canvas
100x100 cm

Hijgt vooruit en duwt in argel

2005
Oil on canvas
80x80 cm

Oh, the heart is heaven, but t

2004
Oil on canvas
140x140 cm

Transition

2006
Oil on canvas
40x40 cm