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80 x 80 cm, oil on canvas

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20 x 25 cm, oil on panel

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10 x 10 cm, oil on panel

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Oil on panel, 10 x 10 cm

Saxen

This is a dedication for a game called Saxen. It takes place in England, during the middle age.

Oil on canvas, 80x80 cm

schouw

At the end of each semester you have to show your work. Jury will come along (3 teachers) and they will judge and criticize your work. It's always little stressy, but fun as well. They were very positive about my works :)

Nappy stillive

My teacher is daddy since tuesday. That inspired me and my friend Thijske, we thought we should do something to celebrate it. It came out to make a stillife of a nappy.
Idea was to paint it as if it is a special object.

And this is the result! For in the babyroom ;)

oil and acrylic on canvas, 55 x 60 cm

Trompe-l'oeil

Trompe-l'oeil. It's a painting style, suggesting there is something realistic.
I made this cupboard to suggest it's really there and you can open it.
I experimenting when it would be finished. I painted it half now, cause you can imagine how it will look when it's finished. Your eye will complete the painting

oil on canvas, 170 x 130 cm

Luxaflex

This is a luxaflex with a paintree behind, shadow coming trough. It will give another dimention to a place, suggesting there is something behind it.

Radiator

I painted a radiator to point out the standart of it's use. It's in every house, but on a place that you don't notice it. What will happen if you hang it on 'eye hight' ? I think it will make it look bizar.

Oil on canvas, 170 x 60 cm

shoes in Granada

And here the shoes in a much better canvas size. I think it makes more sense this way, because it's about the shoes and where ever you look in this paiting, it will bring you to the shoes.

Oil on canvas, 130 x 60 cm

I decided to cut the canvas in half. So here you have a narrow street in Granada

130 x 120

Granada

This was a narrow street in Granada. There were shoes hanging on a cable. I have read about shoes hanging on cables, because they seem to do it a lot in Spain. Aparently its for boys when they loose there virginity or when they are getting married.
Also at some places it has to do something with drugs, for me, well I just liked the shoes hanging there, but when I finished this work of,.. I wasn't sure about the canvas size.....

Oil on canvas, 170 x 130 cm

thee schenk hengel

In real use

Bloopers


This is one of my new inventions. It's called 'tea fishing-rod'. So that you don't have to walk all the way to the person who wants a cup of tea, you can serve people from a distance.

Except...

This is next to my working place. It smells horrible. Have you ever smelled 'over date' acrylic? It sticks everywhere (as you can see) and doesn't get cleaned very often. Except from that, there is open sewer.. Can you imagine the smell? It inspired me to make the sink collection earlier.

my atelier

Now this is the place I make all those paintings. It's at school next to the window.. bit messy.. but I'm very happy with it.

Lieveheersbeestje

A few weeks ago, there were about 30 of these animals in my room around my window. This one was climbing very high up, or went very far down, or very fast along.. however you rotate the canvas, you can make your own story

hearth

I think I will make the brown part around the fire black..... then it's really finished I think, but not my best work ever ;)

parkstraat, 2010

Parkstraat, 2010

This is a scene from the Parkstraat. It's about control, imagine if someone died on this place, and you have just smoked that sigaret, you will definitaly be questioned by the police.

oil on cotton, 170x130 cm

Heater, 2010

I was painting the heater in December/January, because I was cold.

oil on linen, 100x100 cm

Turkey, 2009

Hairy sink, 2009

A wet, dirty, hairy sink after showering.

acrylic on canvas, 55x40 cm

Dirty sink, 2009

Having to work in that aweful smell, really motivates to paint grose things. This is a sink in my student house, after someone has eaten..........can you guess?

acrylic on canvas, 60x80 cm

Sink, 2009

Now this is a sink. At school all students have their own working place, my working place is next to a sink and it smells very bad, distracts me from my work, but also inspired me.

acrylic on canvas, 55x40 cm

Schoenen van Simon, 2009

These are the shoes of my boyfriend. I love to tigh them together when he's not wearing them, cause he will think of me when he puts them on this way.

acrylic on canvas, 55x40 cm

Smart me, 2009

These are my eyes, with the smart face of Einstein.

acrylic on foam, acrylic on plastic paper, 20x25 cm

Ilya with Nobel, 2008

My sister very happy with Nobel the horse who passed away suddenly.

Watercolors on paper, 40x30 cm

Catrin leaves England, 2007

During my time as an au pair in England, I met a lot of nice people. This is Catrin from Sweden, behind her are little photo's of daytrips we had (Durdledoor), the dog from her host family(who liked to play with my shoes) and other memorable things we experienced together. The news paper 'the auparian' tells us fun things that made us laugh. Further on the back you can see the bridge from Bath, UK.

acrylic on canvas, 42x30 cm

Peter no.1, 2007

In 2007 I was au pair in England, every thursday morning before college I took a coffee in a real english pub. Smell of eggs, beans and toast woke me up. I got to know the people working here a little and we started chatting now and then. This is the child of the waitress, his name is Peter. I asked what he liked and she said he admires the mini. So I decided to give him his own mini.

Acrylic on canvas, 42x30 cm

Maarten en Linda, 2004

By the time I painted them, they were still together.

Acrylic on canvas, 42x30 cm

Jan and Annelies marriage, 2003

This was a present for the weddingday of Jan and Annelies.

acrylic on canvas, 42x30 cm

Kids from my chonductor, 2003

During this time I was playing violin in an orchestra, one day I aksed the conductor if I could make a painting of his kids.

acrylic on canvas, 42x30 cm

Salome, 2003

This is was a girl I was babysitting now and then.

acrylic on canvas, 20x25cm

Me and Liset, 2002

This is my previous paiting. It's me and my friend trying out hats from a shop having a lot of fun.

acrylic on canvas, 20x25.