Tiptoe through a fleeting moment
My work searches for different experiences with the fleeting nature of time.
Time often feels like our enemy, a fate we have no control over. Still time is always here amongst us. It is the space we create for her, the face we give her. Our experience of her presence.
My work is my effort to fight time's grip, to silence her by searching for a slower way of experiencing. But also to hold her hand and recognize her beauty as we grow and evolve with her. These moments that can feel short, unnoticed, vulnerable. Like a figure caught in a moment unaware of himself, a businessman daydreaming. This is how I experience these moments, as fragile and vulnerable, like a thin surface of ice that I walk on with careful concentration. Afraid to break the moment, but at the same time driven by my desire to immerse myself in it. Through painting I try to find the timeless elements that unite us universally, and bring them to the front. Globally, children play. People eat. We walk places. We wash ourselves. We sleep. I find beauty in this shared rythm of existing.
Born in Putten, the Netherlands
Living and working in Arnhem, the Netherlands
Education
2020 – 2023
2016 - 2020
Bachelor Docent Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving – Deeltijd OP MAAT, ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Zwolle
Bachelor Fine Art - Painting
AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts
Enschede, The Netherlands
01 - 07/2019
Minor Fine Art
KiT Trondheim Academy of Fine Art
Trondheim, Norway
Exhibitions
Group
25/06 – 01/07, 2021
31/03 – 09/04, 2021
04/2016
AKI Finals
AKI ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten – Enschede
Graduation show Bachelor of Arts
Expositie ‘’ALL INN’’
Het HEM – Zaandam
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Mural Children’s Playground
Redding, California (United States)
Participant in volunteer project for Elementary School playground
01 - 03/12, 2017
'Conglomeraat'
Het Robson – Enschede, The Netherlands
Selected two-dimensional works for annual exhibition by AKI students
13 - 15/06, 2018
Group Exhibition
The Performance Factory – Enschede, The Netherlands
Exhibition of paintings in collaboration with two fellow students organized by SART Stichting Art Twekkelo
Solo
25 - 26/05, 2019
Solo Exhibition ‘’The Goldfish are Calling’’
Galleri Blunk - Trondheim, Norway
Solo Exhibition containing mixed mediums such as paintings, charcoal drawings and text