b. 1965, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
r. Crozon sur Vauvre, France

After a long career as a playwright, where words shaped my world, my shift to painting came sudden but truly felt inevitable.

The freedom I find in painting and collage is at times overwhelming, being fully immersed in color, yet my personal zeal has remained the same and my process is very similar to when I gave voice to characters on a page: navigating an unrelieved cacophony.

These days these inner dialogues unfurl unspoken, in textures, lines, shapes and shades, but still guided by the same instinct to trust my intuition and give in to my desire to explore the unknown.

I see my studio work as an empirical response to what surrounds me, but more importantly to what lives within. When I paint there is a constant back-and-forth between the external and the internal, between perception and feeling.

Though my process involves various stages of private investigation and self reflection, I aim to let each painting carry a sense of presence: something that feels alive, that invites connection and recognition, that traces the rhythm of a memory or makes you catch a glimpse of yourself.