In the sixties, my parents moved from catholic Brabant to this deeply protestant peninsula Walcheren. I was born on the Dam of Middelburg in Zeeland…
Being a first child for my parents, they also gifted me two sisters and one brother. We lived in a house near the sea and I went to a small and very pleasant catholic middle school headed by a church-brother. Reading, drawing and playtime were stimulated…
It has become clear that painting, as practiced traditionally, is what I prefer. Paintings that reflect the reality as we can experience it, and realizing that this is about impossible, have a certain humor and irony, and certainly should not be too serious…