About this website

This website is primarily about art, but I have also included stories about travel, cats and lots of other stuff. From today’s day and from yonder years…
Our lives are like a suitcase filled with stories and experiences. My husband and I currently live in beautiful Canada, in the large province of Ontario. We are originally from The Netherlands and Belgium, and after years of traveling we have found a home on the North American continent. For us, a home would not be a home without cats; many of our feline friends have traveled the world with us. A special section of this website is dedicated to many of them. Check it out at: felines.iamnow.today. But there are also stories and visuals about my adventures all over the globe. Do let me know what you think – I love reading sincere and non-robotic or spammy feedback!

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  • Trying to be the bending tree…
    December 25, 2024 This Christmas day was bittersweet. I am visiting my mom and sister in my country of origin. The main objective is to help out with everything that has to be arranged and adjusted because of my mom’s dementia diagnosis. But it is also to make as many wonderful memories as possible now that she is… Read More »
  • Happy birthday to my husband!
    December 17, 2024 Today is my husband Wim’s birthday. And today I am writing this in a Toronto airport lounge, awaiting my flight to Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I am going to my home country to help care and make future plans for my mother, who, for my sister and I quite unexpectedly, has received a dementia diagnosis. I… Read More »
  • An unexpected portrait
    December 15, 2024 We can all use a good laugh during the holidays, and my favourite way to get the giggles is to watch shows with Sir Billy Connelly. He is my all-time favourite comedian. Recently, he asked artists to send their paintings to him and I figure that was as good a reason as any to devote… Read More »
  • My end of year promise…
    December 9, 2024 Time has been fast-forwarding these last few weeks, or so it seems! It is as if I barely have time to open my paint-tubes, and poof, another weeks has gone. ‘t Must be the season. Looking ahead at the coming weeks, I will not be posting as many new works as I have in the… Read More »
  • Motherly discipline pays off…
    November 25, 2024 It has been quite a while since I saw this scene. It was on a balmy September day some years ago. I was lounging at the edge of a little vegetation covered pond. And I saw them coming: a mother goose with several goslings behind her. It always amazes me that these birds are so… Read More »

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