I am a mid career artist and painting or drawing as long as I can remember. I like hard work and am social, and yet need  to be on my own. When I was 23 I felt the urge to look for a place more nordic than Norway, where I'd been a lot in my childhood. I wanted to take time to find myselve unbound from friends and family, alone with the creative powers of nature. It freed me from the pressure of creating art, because the nature in Iceland has its own art. And yet it emerged a tremendous creative power that I can still feel today.
Nature phenomena as mountains, water, trees, light , wind plants and clouds tell me about  connections that rise far beyond my being. As a urban citizen re-finding myself in collision with natural elements, I like to submerge, by making treks, camping in nature, struggle with and preferably work directly from nature. I am searching for abstract means in natural environment,  a balance between personal expression and visual impact. Looking for contrast  between vast space an closeness, erosion and explosion, details and big shapes, light and dark spaces, the temporary and eternal , grey tones and bright color. 

Steps and traces, retracing a landscape

Steps and traces
Stap voor stap doorloop ik het landschap, elke steen, kloof en schuine rots aftastend. Het heeft me altijd verbaast hoe de regen, het weer, de smeltsneeuw, de kou en de hitte het rotsoppervlak vormt, trager dan een mensenleven, maar soms abrupt en onherstelbaar. Brekingen, doorklieving, landslides, lawines schuiven door het langzaam vormgegeven erosielandschap.  Stap voor stap volg ik de lijnen en vlakken, op zoek naar richting en orde, die uiteindelijk de omgeving vormen.
Steps and traces
Step by step I walk through the landscape, every stone, sleating rock, hole, scanning carefully with my foot. It always surpriced me how rain, snow, meltwater, heat and cold shaped the hard rocks, slower than a human live, but sometimes abrupt and irretrievable. Breaking, cleaving, landslides, avalanches slide through this slowly erodating landscape. I retrace lines and flat planes, looking for a direction or natural order that shape this very landscape.

Landscapes in Norway, Scotland and Aosta

Icelandic Landscapes