Location: Ireland
Born Rotterdam-Holland
education Rotterdam Willem de Kooning Academy of Fine Art
5 year study
1970 scholarship Rotterdam Art Foundation for Italy
1972 international scholarship for a 2 year stay in South Africa
1973 - 1987 international exhibitions
1987 the start of a print-publishing company
Over the years exhibiting at international Art&Trade fairs e.g
Buchmesse Frankfurt, Ambiente Frankfurt, Art Expo New York,
Galleria London, Lineart Belgium, Art Buyers Caravan
Long beach, Dallas, Atlanta, Cork Art Fair etc.
Wholesaling to galleries and art- libraries
2001 moving to Ireland and concentrating on painting original canvases only
Today I live in beautiful rural West Cork- Ireland, second mountain on the right.
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I prep my canvases with a black skin and work from the dark back ground to the lighter parts of the painting.
only 2, or some times 3, colours used
“breaking out- 100x150 cm/ 40"x 60 "”
“Cat Selfie”
“Curves- 60 x 120 cm / 24" x 48"”
