Dystopia Nostalgia

Ready for: The Dystopia Nostalgia 90-tees Bunker party from Studio the Manege.

I kind off mixed Jamiroquai wit Jared Leto. I think music should save the world! Singing together and dancing together. Everyone was dressed up kind and sweet, with great intermezzos like from Hillary Klint 😀🥳💃🏻🕺🏻☀️

The party was great!!! Big shout out to all the directors from the studio who organized it.

Street art museum Amsterdam

Kick off of a great art project by @streetartmuseumamsterdam_sama. With cooperation of @dockamsterdam and @eigenhaard.nl and the community of the Banne! With paintings, a new mural and an exhibition.
Great to be part of this new energetic creation 😀🕺🏻❤️

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Assignment painting

Working on my ‘landscape’ ideas for my assignment for a big painting. From some I know what direction to take from others no idea.

Assignment for paintings

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.

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.

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.

Brunch and talks and showing works

Work from the Berlin time. Morning cock and the opera singer are from Frans. The others are from me.