Happy start of 2025! I‘ve got an assignment for a painting (and maybe becomes two) size 140 x 110 cm. Great! Cannot wait to start. ❤️❤️❤️ Buying play-slats to put the canvas on.
Assignment for paintings
The hand of my father
The hand of my father. First painting finished in 2025.
My father lost his hand due to an exploding hand-grenade on March 14, 1946 while serving the army in Hulten, when young soldiers had to clean the ammunition of WOII without any protection or instructions. He saved the lives of everyone who was set to work there. He never got any credits.
Exhibitions
The fernissages were great and well visited. Kunsttraject is een open air exhibition and about 60 people endured the cold for the beauty of art outside. About 1300+ visitors in Arti et Amititae.
Details of my paintings. Crash was the theme. A visual exploration of how energie could be visualiser after a car crash where film director Tjepke Zijlstra had been in.
The Hand of my father
May be I should change the projects-name just onto The Hand. New painting. Acrylic on Masonite. Unfinished
The hand of my father
Starting a new painting. This was the left hand of my father. Still in progress!
Drawing under hypnosis
I scratched this picture into a soft prepared surface under hypnose. I had a record with hypnose instructions made together with prof. Drs. Jan Willem van der Does whom I had invited to do an hypnose art project with me. Oldy but goody. 😀
Studio visit
Claar Griffioen and Paul van den Akker visited me in my studio to have an interview about Frans Franciscus or Frans van den Vooren. They write a book about him and his art.
I was with Frans in Berlin in 1984. Pim my nephew was with him and I met Also Erwin Olaf there. It was a great time of exploration and discussing each others art.
Work from the Berlin time. Morning cock and the opera singer are from Frans. The others are from me.
Franciscus Exhibition
For the Fries museum I created a perfume called: Franciscus, if your body is sacred to you.
It was exhibited with drawings in the museum in 2002
Museum night on the ferry
What a great surprise to see the exhibition of Joost Stokhof on the ferry to Amsterdam Noord.
Marion
Graphic score. For remembrance. Today I finished my artwork after having it had for about a year on the wall. The dying day of my sister Marion was also the finish.
Marion Graphic score 620 x 40 (cm) acrylic on canvas