In 2015 werkte ik verder aan de serie meubels. Van Ikea zijn er producten waarvan ik het idee heb dat half Nederland ze in huis heeft, dat zijn echt klassiekers geworden. Naast deze Ikea-klassiekers heb ik ook een aantal design meubelstukken geschilderd die je tegenkomt in ongeveer elk willekeurig woonblad.

In 2014, I started a whole new series: furniture. More specifically: pieces of furniture that you see everywhere, in people's homes, in home decor magazines, and at trade fair stands, for example. Ikea has a number of very distinctive products, such as the Bekväm stool and the PS locker cabinet. In addition to Ikea's mass-produced products, there are also designer furniture pieces that you can't ignore, such as Piet Hein Eek's scrap wood cabinet and the Egg chair, a design b

In 2011 schilderde ik verder aan de serie ‘Functionele dingen aan de muur’. Binnen de serie heb ik veel geëxperimenteerd met diverse technieken. In het begin schilderde ik alle patronen, daarna ben ik gaan werken met stempels en sjablonen.

In 2010, a new subject came my way, which I felt was something I could really get my teeth into. The series with the Smurfs and the ballet girls felt somewhat like a side track; this new series seemed more in line with the caravans and the new housing estates. I called it: “Functional things on the wall”.

I continued working on the series featuring identical ballet girls, the Smurfs series, and the caravan series. The paintings of the girls were intended to represent dream worlds, hence the clouds and flowers floating freely in space. For the Smurfs, I drew on my experiences in the office. Before I went to art school, I studied Business Economics and worked full-time in an office for several years.

After I started making autonomous works on paper of ballet girls in 2007, I also started making drawings of caravans in 2008. Not just as sketches, but now as autonomous works. Familiar subject, new medium. Large drawings in charcoal, often combined with pastel chalk. I also painted the first Smurf that year.

I continued working on the series of paintings featuring caravans and on its successor, the series featuring newly built houses. Later that year, I started another new series, featuring ballet girls. In this series, too, I was interested in uniformity, similarity in form, and universality.

In 2006, I continued working on the series of paintings featuring caravans with which I had graduated a year earlier, and I also started...

This year marks 20 years since I graduated, and looking forward to an exhibition later this year, you can already see here what I have been creating during this period. Starting with a few paintings from 2005, the year in which I completed my studies at the art academy in Arnhem and received a start-up grant from the Mondriaan Fund.