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a little piece of heaven

acrylic, ink, paper and copper collage. 50 cm x 31 cm.

rooftops

tree bark and acrylic on a swiss-recycled paper bag.

dry lands

organic inks on handmade flax fiber paper, 10"x 14"

tie-dye church

sketch for tie dye and stained glass window church installation---

Black Water

ink and acrylic on Arches paper, 13"x 21"

europa

from briviesca to berlin

collaborative work





















Aries-- acrylic on wood panel

Lugano

"Lago Siva & Pamela", acrylic, vegetable ink, and lace, on local handmade paper.

Monte Bre

acrylic, vegetable ink and swiss bark on ticinese hand made wool paper.

Berlin Church Fox

"crocodile, tiger or fox?", paper, ink, acrylic and applique on recycled paper, 11"x 18".

Revisiting Schwarzwald

"lightning at schuldsee", ink and paper collage on arches hot press, 16"x 20".

"black lakes, black forests", ink and acrylic on arches hot press, 20"x 30"

forest magic painting--

Artist Statement, June 2006

My paintings explore the memory of experience when in natural landscape, through travelling, and living in Los Angeles, California. An urban city surrounded by iconic palm trees, a romanticised place where mountains and oceans collide, I seek to paint the harmonious and symbiotic relationships exisiting in a Darwinian world. Contradictory and magical, sometimes dark and theatrical, the work brings a moment from time into focus, presenting and dissecting an ephemeral construct of place.

Using obsolete illustrated science books, which sought to explain a potentially inexplicable event, and exotic travel guides from the 80´s that highlight the countries I lived in, my paintings often allude to the mystical with invented birds or plants. The subjective perception of landscape leads to coded narrative in the paintings and drawings. The collage element is often times a direct reference to a particular person or place. Fabrics, appliqués or pieces of a tree may be part of the work. The decorative floral elements not only refer to patterns found within nature but also the memory of the Hindeloopen folk art that I grew up with in Holland.

My work does not intend to depict utopic natural landscape or places, instead, by working with the abstract nature of a memory, and the idea of artist as creator, the paintings explore what the world possibly could be and how landscape is a construction of the mind.
With my return to Spain, and my planned travels to places of which I have only vague memories, my recent paintings romanticize the Black Forest of Germany and explore even further how time filters and abstracts mental constructs of place.

Basel Art Fair, June 2006

"flags on the old bridge", acrylic, fabric and paper collage on canvas, 7"x 6".

"swiss made triangle", acrylic, fabric and paper collage, 9"x 10".

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"this i know for sure"
tape, fabric and acrylic paint on a recycled paper bag, 24"x 12".