'Usually I work on 3 or 4 at a time, kind of cross-pollinating. From one painting you see about the other.'
'The start, I have to be really charged up, I'm waiting for that moment to get to action, to attack as it were. Then the hand takes over from the brain,’
'I have a load of references, however, not all of them are suitable for canvas at this moment.'
'No, it's not slick, but almost nothing I've created in my life was really slick, so it’s completely me.'
'And... perfection in a way is doozy, to avoid sometimes I paint without my glasses.'
'Anyway, an empty agenda and head is important, and I rarely have that unfortunately. Oh... and stop at the moment when things are going well. That's actually treacherous, because that's precisely when you want to keep going.'
'“Being in that other side” is twofold: is what I paint and is my mind when I paint it.'
'Yes, offcourse I have a plan but I don’t make sketches or underdrawings. I just start to paint from the image in my head and heart and react on that in the process.'
'I don't visit exhibitions or musea while I'm in a painting-episode, you're in a sensitive process and seeing other work can be intimidating. Other work almost attacks me then.'
WORK
'My conscience? No, not bothered by it. I paint what I need to paint.'
'I don't show everything, there is a shadowouvre as it were, that I might make public later.'
'I’m not that complex as the paintings seems, no, I'm just an cheerful, social, friendly, bit weird, bit scary and quirky person, hahaha. And .... I have a fascination with the selveside, the real, the pure, the raw.'
'Always reinventing for each painting(serie), because it’s a feeling, I paint it how I feel it’s needed. I don't like painting in one style, I tried but got bored too quickly.'
'There are millions of paintings and painters, who am I? I'm afraid I can't really add anything substantial. Still, if I touch someone it's beautiful.'
'I paint it out as it were. The bad things, that's my breeding ground. Without that misery I would never have painted I think.'
'The personal paintings to me are to
re-experience it and distance myself from it again.'
'Sometimes I think painting is a way to avoid living.'
‘Sure. They are not everybody's friends, but hey, I paint what I have to paint. Can’t help it.'