Country: Netherlands
About me
Watercolour to me is the loveliest way to put color on a paper surface. I'm addicted to it ever since my first box of watercolor pans back in 1996. The flowing and blending of the paint in amazingly strong colors always fascinates me. It is a wonderful medium to capture the changes of light and the characteristic and spacious luminosity of a landscape, buildings or a city view.
I enjoy the play of water and color on paper, the apparent ease, the weightlessness. But sometimes the outcome is unpredictable. It is rope-dancing, skating on paper, finding the balance between drawing and painting, on the narrow edge between success and failure, control and accident. And even the accidents may be so wonderful that one would never want anything else.
I love thinking about what I observe, what thrills me and why, and how I might translate just that in a personal way on a sheet of paper.
The journey is as important as the destination.
