Geometric shapes will always take part of our life. We walk through the water without thinking about the structure and microscopic details surrounding our body. Frozen water are incredible beautiful but we use it to skate on not to admire under a microscope. My fascination to use abstract elements started during my study at Örebro Art School in 1997. There I began to collect pictures of enlarged cells. I explored the plant as a Walt Disney film. Draw my own small maps and placed new patterns in different combinations, it started to look like an Indian carpet in my studio. Finally I began to make installations with colorful plastic bags and beeswax. I covered the floor and ceiling with strange objects. Nearly 20 years later my paintings have undergone a similar development. In 2006 I was sitting at home in Amsterdam, three floors high, looking out the window. Every day I saw the sky through my stain glass window changing color on my wall, adding different atmospheric formations inside my room. It gave me the idea to start to place similar abstract shapes over my cloud-like paintings. I looked through the window and my painting was there. It was not about to just paint a two dimensional picture anymore.
Geometric shapes will always take part of our life. We walk through the water without thinking about the structure and microscopic details surrounding our body. Frozen water are incredible beautiful but we use it to skate on not to admire under a microscope. My fascination to use abstract elements started during my study at Örebro Art School in 1997. There I began to collect pictures of enlarged cells. I explored the plant as a Walt Disney film. Draw my own small maps and placed new patterns in different combinations, it started to look like an Indian carpet in my studio. Finally I began to make installations with colorful plastic bags and beeswax. I covered the floor and ceiling with strange objects. Nearly 20 years later my paintings have undergone a similar development. In 2006 I was sitting at home in Amsterdam, three floors high, looking out the window. Every day I saw the sky through my stain glass window changing color on my wall, adding different atmospheric formations inside my room. It gave me the idea to start to place similar abstract shapes over my cloud-like paintings. I looked through the window and my painting was there. It was not about to just paint a two dimensional picture anymore.
