Series

Future Inventions

​In the series "Future Inventions", the emphasis is on the challenges that await us, the feeling that today's extremely changing world is urgently asking for new solutions and inventions... or is it the other way round: by the too rapid succession of technological discoveries comes a feeling of uneasiness, yearning for humanity??

There paintings have started from a quest for old images, of thinkers and inventors, but what are they looking for: the opportunities that all the new technology offers us, or how we can protect ourselves against it?

The inventor II
The coming into existence
what comes from below
The interview
The Inventor

Breakthrough

In the series "breakthrough" it is about how ideas, discoveries and inventions keep shaping the human evolution and our modern world- view.

​What is the end goal of man(kind) and how does this evolve ? What is his driving force? Ultimately, it is a quest for destination...

Ind the end, inventions or ideas are only a means of achieving these goals. Thanks to these tremendous technological advances of the past 100 years, mankind and its evolution have arrived at the greatest turning point in ... history.

The Experiment
The Preparation (for an atmospheric escape)
How to launch a satellite
The launch
Its not rocket science
The launch II
The decent

The Primate Paradox

The primate paradox is again a reference to who we really are. We regard to ourselves as a smart upper being, but rarely as the animals we evolved from

Tenderness
Distraction
Curiosity

Sanctuary of the lost light

A dream suspended in glass and shadow, where time lingers and reality dissolves...

In this modernist sanctuary, light fades but never disappears

a journey through a world where architecture holds secrets, and every drink is a toast to something just out of reach."

suspension
I'd rather be outside
The dreamer
I'd rather be inside

not part of of any series

These paintings are not part of a particular series, yet they are made of the same fascinations and similar themes apparent in the more sequenced works. They consist of explorations, sometimes technical, other times in subject-matter that build upon or expand the series.

The Equilibrium Point
The Potato Eaters
To swim
The lake
Detecting the Liar
The circus II
Leaving the past behind

Style in motion

the unspoken strength and grace that comes to life in each moment of motion.

The distraction
The girl with the black shoe

Bygone Toys

The series "Bygone Toys" has a melancholic background: images of antique toys that come back to life. The childish in all of us that seems forgotten, but that ultimately forms the essence of who we are; The toys made us dream, discover the world and awaken our creative consciousness, preparing us for what is yet to come...

The Mill
The Racetrack
The Puppethouse
The MIll II
The carousel II
Lying dolls

Forgotten Inventions

The "Forgotten Inventions" series is based on forgotten inventions from the 1930s. It was a time of renewal, but it was combined with a quest for beauty, style and functionality. The Inter-war period is also interesting because of the similarities with our time, the feeling of being at a tilting point. It delves deeper into that cyclical nature of ideas: It remains fascinating to see how history, and its ideas are repeated again and again, but never in the same way.

The man and the mirror
The Launch III
The Helmet
The Udder
Learning to float
The beauty blowers
The spectator

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