evocative realism

2023

never give up                 _{80 x 50}

portrait of a missing person up               _{60 x 42}

future                 _{75 x 50}

2022

life                _{75 x 57}

waiting                 _{60 x 90}

2021

there                 _{90 x 60}

home                _{90 x 60}

go!                 _{60 x 90}

2020

life               _{60 x 76}

peace and power               _{90 x 60}

go!               _{60 x 90}

2019

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leaving home               _{90 x 60}

just turn the corner                 _{50 x 55}

2018

that road                _{50 x 55}

drowning man's vision                 _{60 x 80}

they're there                 _{45 x 60}

we still don't know                 _{50 x 55}

this painting is closely connected to the earlier "what we know"

out there                _{60 x 90}

choices                 _{50 x 60}

the end of an affair                 _{50 x 45}

2017

serenity                 _{75 x 50}

a room                 _{50 x 55}

I am a rock                 _{90 x 54}

majestic morning                 _{90 x 57}

dear john                 _{50 x 55}

the house that was                 _{60 x 45}

night train                 _{50 x 45}

what we know                 _{50 x 45}

palace of justice                 _{80 x 50}

2016

possibility                 _{60 x 90}

palace of justice                 _{120 x 80}

no name                 _{50 x 45}

refuge                 _{50 x 40}

inevitable                 _{90 x 60}

2015

shelter from the storm 2015       _{60 x 40}

gone                 _{60 x 70}

way out                 _{60 x 90}

lost                 _{90 x 60}

destination unknown                 _{120 x 80}

the interior is that of the Grote Kerk Maassluis

progress                 _{90 x 60}

the right half is a prison somewhere on the Balkan

outside in                 _{90 x 60}

2014

kroller muller             _{85 x 60}

caught                 _{60 x 90}

painted after a visit to Siena, Toscane. Beautiful city but to me a bit claustrofobic

to be or not                _{110 x 60}

to treno fevgi stis okto.       _{97 x 60}  

the station is the old and, sadly, demolished railway station of Maassluis. I got the idea from a Mikis Theodorakis song, sung by Agnes Baltsa. A lonely girl waiting in the mist at the station for her never to return lover.

2013

paradise lost                 _{90 x 60}

and there was light                 _{90 x 60}

a Dios                _{97 x 60}

come!               _{90 x 6 0}

2011

shelter from the storm 2011                 _{90 x 60}

• evocative realism
• cubism
• scapes
• portraits
• minimal romanticism
• naive
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