March 16, 2025
I am still processing the past 3 months in my country of origin, the Netherlands. I am brimming with new ideas and have several new works waiting for me to get started. But before I do, I want to show you 3 originals I found while cleaning my mom’s house.
They are all small and come from the time I worked with black and white ink, rather than with paint and colours. The first one is a portrait of who I think was Yehudi Menuhin. He was a brilliant violinist – I studied the violin for 20 years and played in some orchestras when I was young and he was one of my idols. I THINK it is him, but I never wrote down who this was based on…
Then there is this one. I remember that it was based off some esoteric question: if you were an animal, what are you now, what are you dreaming of being and how would you like to come back. My answers, clearly, were that I was a Lioness, I wished to be a bird so I could fly and would want to come back as an eagle or some sort of bird of prey. Meditate on that! 🙂
And the last small work was part of a series of what I called ‘drop’ figures. I drew people and every part of their body was in the shape of a drop. It was just a fun thing to do, nothing deep fuelling it. I remember them to be quite popular and I gave most of them away. But this little original survived, as it was stored in an art book.
