Little Moments of Pure Bliss

These paintings give you a typical feeling when you imagine these everyday, yet very special moments of bliss. That feeling in your stomach when you look at the painting ‘Peter’ and imagine the first sip of your coffee in the morning, or when you see ‘Max’, who holds his breath on the back of the bike and holds his nose in the wind, or remembering children’s toes tickling your leg while reading a story like you see in ‘Kiek en Niki’. By immortalising these moments on canvas, they become quiet and at the same time grander.

This project is still going on, so if you have an image of such a moment that you think is universal, please contact me.

Barcelona Lockdown

A series of paintings about the Barcelona Lockdown during the Pandemic of 2020. Paintings with stories, emotions and sometimes even music.
Every evening at 8 p.m. the entire Barcelona neighbourhood clapped for the people who worked in healthcare. Everybody stood on the balcony and there was a short moment of contact between the neighbours. Also a moment to look with curiosity at what was happening behind all those windows. A kind of voyeurism, which you can also experience in paintings by the American painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Some of the paintings are direct interpretations of a Hopper painting, but most are true or imagined glimpses into the urban landscape of Barcelona within a heavy frame to express the windows.

To return to this world for a moment, most paintings appeal to your own imagination and old emotions are quickly evoked. Everyone experienced the lockdown in their own way. Small and big drama, small and big happiness, but all to a large extent deprived of our freedom. What did this do to you? And how do you deal with that even today?

Underwater

The Underwater Series is about emotions, about growth, about evolution, about learning how to say goodbye to everything you know, and searching for a new way of life. About feeling ‘Under Water’, surrounded by beautiful landscapes, but you can’t breathe.

This series reflects a period in my life during which I had the urge to change everything to find myself again.

Barcelona Districts

The Barcelona Districts Series I´ve painted because I wanted to get to know my new hometown. And not only the highlights, but also the backgrounds, hidden gems and the cultural stories of the people living there.

A colourful and cultural walk through the 10 districts of Barcelona you can enjoy in an exhibition at restaurant Roots&Rolls in the Eixample District in Barcelona, C/Consell de Cent 401, near Metro Girona.

New Habitat

What happens with my paintings, when sold?

We’re not the only ones who enjoy this mural, also our neighbours here from the Tawny Owl Street are delighted with it.

(Tiny & Peter, The Netherlands)

Fall asleep and wake up in the forest, the perfect painting for me!

(Kirsten, The Netherlands)

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