I am starting a new series of blogs where I will discuss products, companies, artist, books and other ART fINDS that inspire me, fascinate me or otherwise are useful to me. For this first post, I want to talk about Redbubble.  I have been a member of Redbubble for...

This exhibition took place from 27th of July until the 31st of August and was possible thanks to a generous donation to the artist collective STA-ART. Over thirty-plus artist joined the call to bring up to 4 of their art pieces for this exhibition. Considering the...

Seeing your art in the open space of an excellent gallery is always something special and this exhibition in the gallery "Galerie Alphen Art" is no exception. For this exhibition, I wanted to make some large canvas pieces. I like to call this size "the above the couch...

Kunstroute (art route) are cultural events where you walk along a specific path. During this walk, you will see art pieces from a wide range of disciplines. I was asked to join the kunstroute of Alphen aan den Rijn in November 2017, which is better known as the...

In November 2017, I participated in the kunstroute Alphen aan den Rijn, better known as the ALPHENART event. My main contribution to this event was a statue that was displayed floating in the water of a small canal. You can read more about it in my previous blog....

“Onder Zee” (Under Sea) is a tribute to the similarly named poem by the poet J.C. Bloem and was part of the exhibition in honour of this poet. This exhibition was held in 2017 in the city Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands. Part of the assignment that leads to the...

Every year a local cultural centre hosts a big art event. I will have a stall at this event and was thinking of ways to contribute. One idea was to design some colouring pages to give away for free. Making these reminded me of my older artworks. Long ago I started out...

I created this painting for a contest called “Groene Hart kunst wedstrijd”, a regional art contest. The Green Heart is a region of relatively thin populated land and a lot of nature and farmland boxed in by several of the major cities in my country. A lot of past and...