About my work
Sculptures on this website,
material and dimensions
I started sculpting in 1996 at the Academy for Craftsmanship in Amsterdam. Around the same time, I played in various punk bands. Early on I was drawn to the freedom I found in abstract art. No longer limited by the shapes of visual reality, I created abstract sculptures with massive shapes. I got rid of intensions (just wanted to create aesthetic beauty) and entered surreal creative dreams. The sculptures I make reflect the subconscious. I still find that true art with real content is surreal.
Throughout the years, my sculptures grew, the space surrounding them (the environment) became increasingly important. Sculptures multiplied into installations and landscapes. They became visual stories. Eventually my entire body of work will hopefully read that way.
The process of designing sculpture pleased me more than the long hours of craftwork. That's when I decided to concentrate on designing, collage making and painting. The results never felt satisfying until I found a new angle of incidence. I begun painting on mosaic using materials other than solid wood to create three dimensional space.
A more formal and minimalistic period followed. I wanted to strip down sculpture to an essencial visual language. This leap towards radical abstraction turned out to be a perfect fit for the work I started doing together with Sabrina Tacci.
Since 2017 I collaborate with Sabrina. She is an incredible expressionist painter. I might be a expressionist at heart, but I put that in my music. Her paintings and her approach is opposite to the way I work, therefore we stand our own ground. We fuse our skills together to create new art. Without compromise we are able to combine our ideas, which is wonderful.
Home
Queen pick-up baybee installation
surface 10 m2 height 2.00 m
material pinewood, oak
transparent acrylic lacquer, colour lacquer
Form
Houdini 1
height 0.90 m
material pinewood
white oil
Bullhead
height 1.40 m width 1.70 m
material pinewood
transparent-white lacquer
Schenk 2
height 0.75 m width 0.65 m
material pinewood, merbau
transparent-white lacquer
Houdini 3 and table-construction
height 0.80 m width 0.60 m
material pinewood
white oil
table-construction
height 0.94 m width 0.64 m length 1.22 m
material pinewood
black enamel
Space
Motherland
height 0.70 - 1.00 m
material pinewood
Tre Grazie, Ode alla sorellanza installation
height 2.10 m width 0.70 m length 2.00 m
material oak, wenge
transparent-white waxoil
Colour
Being with the greatest person on this planet
height 1.80 m (base = 0.80 m)
MDF
acrylic colour lacquer
Orange amplifier (1) mosaic
height 0.80 m width 0.80 m
material MDF, triplex
colour lacquer
Orange amplifier (2) mosaic
height 0.80 m width 0.80 m
material MDF, triplex
colour lacquer
Essence
Sustain
height 1.75 m
material various types of wood
acrylic primer and colourpaint
Tafel
height 0.80 m width 0.90 m lenght 1.40 m
material oak, jatoba, triplex
transparent acrylic lacquer, colour lacquer
Destiny
height 1.35 m width 0.65 m
material inkjet print
Stoel 2
height 1.50 m
material pinewood, purple heart, wenge
Fusion
Tre Grazie, Ode alla sorellanza installation
height 2.10 m width 0.70 m lenght 2.00 m
material oak, wenge
transparent-white waxoil
Being3
height 1.00 m
material pinewood
The Devil's Chair
height 1.60 m
material pinewood, coil spring seat
