Study for sculpture with painting, coloured Kore portraits. 2020

These studies on paper are searching for ways to present the classic kore sculptures in colour. The white stone surface is replaced by an imagined coloured portrait.

Oil paint on paper, 46 x36 cm, 2020

Oil paint on paper, A4, 2020

 

 

 

Oil paint on wood-board, 30 x 20 cm, 2020

Ivory Virgin, series in oil paint on woodboard 30x20cm 2020

A series of seven paintings, inspired by a small gothic statue of the Mary in ivory, dated at the Middle Ages. The colour has aged with all kinds of pink, yellow, ochre and warm hues and there is no longer a reference to white as a symbol of purity.

  

Oyster shell with paint.

A long time ago artists used shells to hold their paint. In 2014 I made some of these colours from woodpaste and paint in an oyster shell.

In school we had a timeline above the green board, showing evolution from past over present to future. It seems to me we look at it wrong, presented like this we place ourself outside of this timeline. Instead, we should look at it from the centre of the line itself, like in a dot where past and future meet. This way we are at all times at once. That is how it really is, the chair wasn't built today, and you weren't born right now, we are past, present and future. We are the meeting point between dinosaurs and new species to come. These oyster shells in my atelier are the meeting point of past painters and future works.