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My Celtic Lad

A beautiful man executed in oil on canvas and combined with goldfoil and age-old symbols. A Triquetra, symbol of protection and the trinity; earth, air and water or life, death and rebirth. Together with an Ouroboros; The Ouroboros (Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος, "tail-eater") is a symbol of alchemy, and one of the oldest mythical symbols in the world. It appears in Celtic- and Aztec mythology, Chinese mythology and many others. It is an image of a snake or dragon biting its own tail (eating it) and thus forming an eternal circle. It symbolizes the cyclical nature of nature, eternal recurrence and the unity of everything.
The Celtic knot contains symbols that protect or ensure prosperity and luck, among other things. All of this covered with a lush, thick layer of glossy resin for an almost 3D effect.

Dancing Faun ( 1st century CE), a lustful woodland creature, follower of Dyonisos, the god of wine, lived freely in wild inebration. Often represented in frenzied states of music making and dance, as here, with chiseled body captured in rotating movement. Dancing with excited fishes with a Greek-Persian style mosaic background
What happens when you take Greek mythological statues and torsos from their safe environment and give them a surreal twist. Illuminated or surrounded by unusual creatures, their sensual appeal is enhanced in a colorful image. Ancient statues were often much more colorful than people now think....let's give some colour back..
Oil and goldleaf on canvas

A Midnight's Paradise

Oil and goldleaf on canvas. Neatly chiseled Greek torso illuminated by golden moonlight and luminous birds of paradise in an enchanting leafy forest setting.

Dark Angel Golden shower

Oilpainting with goldleaf. Paletknife and brush, on a 3D canvas. Bit of a rough Angel, but hey...

Menelaos and Patroclus oil on canvas 120 x 90 cm. .

During an attack on Troy Patrocles is seduced by Menelaos, Helen's husband, to fight in the armor of his beloved Achilles. Patrocles is murdered by the Trojans. Menelaos retrieves his dead body from the battlefield and brings it to an unsuspecting Achilles, who is left inconsolable with his murdered lover.

PARADISO

It used to be normal to discover the world and meet people. Long-distance flights and exciting encounters with new cultures and making friends. A global pandemic, an international energy crisis and a changing mindset about how we interact with the world and the climate are slowly changing our lives. Is it still okay to fly everywhere, and what does the changes do to our memories? Do we continue to remember what we have experienced, do we remember friends we have met? Or will it slowly become a faded memory? In the triptych
Paradiso I show beach life on Naxos as it once was for me... but slowly fading... like a snapshot in an old photo album.

Oil on canvas, number three has recently been added and maybe more to come depending on my memory...anyway the background of these three continues like an endless horizon, when put next to each other

MULTIMEDIA ON CANVAS

Oilpaint/ spraypaint/ collage/ mixed techniques on canvas topped with a thick layer of resin on 3D canvas and framed in a black wooden 3D frame. If size matters 60 x 80 cm, except for Daniël; 50 x 70 cm.

My

DECAY

Dandys, impeccable and androgynous. As a basis, four old lists found inspired me to a series of portraits that radiate transience. Torn placards, hidden texts and faded beauty executed in oil on board and as a finishing touch a thick glossy epoxy layer.

DECAY
A story of contradictions, of decay and renewal, of beauty and old age. Four frames, discarded and damaged. For years they were a showpiece in the interior of an authentic brown pub, they were demolished and left behind in a second-hand stuff shed. I came across them and couldn't leave them behind. As I was already collecting photos of walls full of pasted posters as inspiration for colors and backgrounds, I came up with the idea for a series about old and new, decay and beauty. The frames have been refurbished, but the age remains visible. Texts are visible but illegible, all painted on a background of randomly torn painted pamphlets. Like a phoenix from the flames, four beautiful men, impeccable Dandy's, emerge, seemingly unfazed by the ravages of time. Even the paisley motif on the back of the paintings is a reference to the times of old. To enhance the effect, the paintings are finished with a thick layer of resin, so as to seal the decay of the background and the beauty of the nineteenth-century men against the ravages of time.
The image I have tried to create is to depict the ease with which nowadays it is easy to part with what is damaged or dilapidated, without thinking about what was once beautiful and had value. Restore that value and give it new allure, and honor its DECAY.

Dark Lights, a series in oil on canvas in which different shades of dark combined with a bright white show different men. Lust, mystery, passion, anger in a limited color palette

Oilpaintings 2017/2018