‘Figuration has always been a deliberate choice. The painting as a window: to a world beyond the world of the spectator’.
Awards:
- 1998 The Tabernacle Open Prize. (Wales, UK)
- 1998 The Gulbenkian Art Prize.
Exhibitions:
1999
MOMA WALES
The Museum of Modern art, Machynllieth, Wales (UK) .
Short Biography
Since 1968 working full-time as a self-employed visual artist.
From 1975 up to 1988: a senior teacher in the sculpture department at the Academie Minerva at Groningen city, the Netherlands. Other teaching subjects: ‘flat forms and colours', ‘expressive three-dimensional forms’, ‘life drawing' and ‘anatomy’.
‘Figuration has always been a deliberate choice. The painting as a window: to a world beyond the world of the spectator’.
‘A window to a recognizable world, mystifying and re-creating reality through my own personal choices.’
Regularly solo and group exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad.