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STATEMENT OF WORK
I am a Dutch-Canadian visual artist trained in the tradition of figurative painting. I work in specific series or projects and adjust my medium accordingly. Alongside my regular, single session (observationa)l paintings, my practice has become increasingly exploratory with longer and ongoing projects - involving abstraction, varied surfaces, installation, ceramics, photography, performance and ephemeral art.
l have a strong attachment to oil paint: a medium that is messy, sometimes difficult and disappointing, but simultaneously sensual, seductive, feisty and fluid – like life itself. My use of symbolism is often extremely layered and has become my artistic style: a kind of idyllic darkness or genial melancholy.
My life and work have been greatly influenced by frequent moving, from immigrating to Canada as a child to returning to the Netherlands as an adult. Transition and change are recurrent themes in my work evoking fugitive, vulnerable, ambivalent states. Those themes have led me to explore the poignant reciprocity of souvenir and memento mori. My common concern is with the mutable and abiding role of memory.