My work and style? Think about Baroque Caravaggio and De Kooning with the Muppets filtered through a story from the New York Times.

My paintings, sculptures and installations are all about what it feels like living in our world today: trying to survive or make sense of it all, including the craziness of humanity evoking a variety of feelings: love, sadness, alienation, loneliness, anger and anxiety. My works may appear humorous and chaotic at first glance, but when looking closer their darker side is revealed. I use humour as a catalyst for entering a dialogue between my works and the viewer, inviting a broad audience, from trained art lovers to passersby and children, to engage. Some people get upset. Others love it. Talking to people without judgement is very much part of my practice.

When I paint, my work process is complicated and a battle. Most often words or a sentence appear in my mind and from that I begin to doodle. I do not do much sketching or planning and I work directly on the canvas intuitively making changes in the composition, colors and textures as I go along. I do look a lot at art history and make research as an integral part of informing my new work, like for example how a war, disease or disaster have been portrayed by painters through history. At the moment I am playing with thick impasto and loose gestures much more abstractly.

What is funny is that I approach my sculptures much more as a session of mediation when I work in bronze or stone, but again make intuitive decisions as I go along the 3D work speaks to me: for me making sculptures is very much a sense of touch and feeling.

My installations like my painting may appear fun as I use all sort of materials like garbage, burned wood, gumballs, stone, toys, mannequins and recycles electronics to create these temporary installations. They are often more thought out, but always with changes as I install the elements.

Before quitting my job diving into my art full time I had a background in humanitarian work for the UN/World Bank. In 2019 I obtained a fine arts degree earned at Royal Academy of Art (KABK Netherlands) as was honored same year for the annual “Best Art Graduate/Sprout Young Talent” exhibition with 30 other artist selected from all of the Netherlands by the SBK Foundation. This fall as the SBK Foundation celebrates it 70th years anniversary I have been selected with 70 others artist to represent the last decade (2015-2025) an incredible honor.

I have been fortunate to have completed 6l public commissions (Copenhagen) and came in 2nd place for a large Holocaust memorial sculpture in Massachusetts.