Paintings and the mystery of life

Earth

2009-08-11T14:01:00.000-07:00

An other part of the four elements, the earth, wich we take literally here.

Sand of the desert, in structures blown by the wind, looks like paciently organized parts of an organic body. This body is combined with a structure of the human body. In this case we are one with the element "earth". The desert is a barren place where we possibly can die of thirst and lonelyness, but it can also be a symbolic garden to meditate and meet our deepest fears and dreams. In that case, we will need the desert as hard as we need water...

Earth

2,30x 1,20m

Acrylics on canvas

For sale

Water

2,30 x 1,20m

Acrylics on canvas

Not for sale

Air to breath

2009-08-04T12:31:00.000-07:00

It is a while ago that all the elements were triggering me.

I made a few paintings with the 4 elements, combined with a microscopic view of the same theme. This one is AIR, a typhone in the back, combined with the structure of the lung, the alveoli, a symbol for air, of the human body. Sometimes nature can be very destructive, but still we can't live without the elements.

Air: 2,30 x 1,20m

Acrylics on canvas.

For sale

An old but esthetical European map

2009-08-03T07:13:00.000-07:00

Maps always facinated me since I was young. A beautifull pattern of lines, the borders of countries, rivers and than the millions of weird names of each town whereever it exists. Every country in Europe has it's own language, it used to have its own coins, but that is changed nowadays.

Another thing what has been changing our routine and way of traveling is that almost everybody has its own GPS. Nobody has to look closely to a country- or citymap anymore because this wonderfull satelite system shows us around. What about all those cartographers and map-makers.... Are they unemployed right now? What about all those old fashioned crafts like landschape painters, now we have very easy cameras. Oil paint is almost forbidden but a good painter is still hot fortunately.

I keep prefering watching maps instead of using that familiar and populair "tom-tom".

I want to find my way home in an old-facioned way!

The map: 1.80 x 80 cm

Graphite pencil and acrylics on canvas.

For sale

Scientific examination versus art

2009-07-29T05:06:00.000-07:00

Scan

Graphite pencil on canvas

1.80m x o.80 m

for sale

The art of the human body

2009-07-29T04:00:00.000-07:00

This painting is called "Different" which is inspired on a cancercell.

Acrylic on canvas

Size: 1.20 m x 70 m

for sale

It is incredible if we can see inside the (human) body, it is like another planet.

When we look through a microscope, for example at a specific cell of cancer which is deadly and unwelcome for our welness, it can be a creative inspiration as well because of its forms and shapes. This art is about learining to see in a different way, so it can happen that we survive our deepest fears and sicknesses and we are able to become stronger and make our lifes more worth living.

Paintings from the brain collection

2009-07-29T03:46:00.000-07:00

Rat brain.

For sale

Red brains

(Sold)