Abroad
Indonesia & Malaysia
In the winter of 2009- 2010 I was in Indonesia and Malaysia for a couple of months. The first weeks I stayed with friends and painted in an extra room in their beautiful house. After two weeks I went to see the rest of Java. I took my canvas along, rolled up in a large socket that I carry with me. This way I could work everywhere.
After Indonesia I went to Malaysia, to Pulau Kecil, wich means ‘Small Island’. Indeed it was. The only thing that could be done there was diving, surfing and catamaran sailing. So those were the things I would do during the cooler morning. In the afternoon I painted in the shade of the little patio of my island house.
Nola Hatterman Institute Paramaribo, Surinam.
As in many other years, I fled the cold wet and windy winters of Holland in 2007. I went to Paramaribo for two months. Again to work for myself and next to that, teach to provide for my stay.
I shared a giant studio with hundreds of church benches and other furniture that came from the oldest wooden church in south America. I had an altar as my easel and created new species on the sheet music that was lying around.
At the Nola Hatterman institute I worked as an art teacher, drawing and painting lessons; to model, landscape and concept. Also art history and style- and concept formation.
Delhi, India
In 2006, I was in New Delhi, India. I stayed in the house of a silkscreen printer who also let me use an entire floor of his studio that he wasn’t using at the time. Every day I worked, like a maniac, and everynight I went out, New Delhi is completely amazing. I took serveral trips, went to Rajastan and stayed with the people of the desert, close to the Pakistan border. On my way there I visited Jodhpur, the famous beautiful blue city, and goreous Jaipur. And off course I went to see the Taj Mahal in Agra.
India gave me endless input, and the unlimited space and material to work with. The quality of the paper and the paint there is so good that it is illegal here in Europe. I have to go back there….
Levantine College of Art, Cyprus
In March of 2004 I went to Cyprus, the Turkish side of the islands to work and teach. An old abandoned catholic church was a beautiful and especially cool place to work. After 10 in the morning there was nothing like my private studio on the whole island.
Twice a week, the students of the Levantine College of Art came to my church-studio, I would rid all the easels of my work to let the students in on my ways of looking at form and figure.
