Leuk nieuws; ik doe mee met de atelierroute van Eindhoven! 5 en 6 oktober is mijn atelier van 11 tot 17 uur open. Lekker kijken, kletsen, koffie drinken of misschien wel wat maken? Kom langs!! Iedereen is super welkom :) Meer info? Stuur me een berichtje, of check de website van de Atelierroute!

Luftansa: go where you wanna go🫡

I’ve been looking for ways to incorporate my circle drawings into my paintings, and this is another attempt. I’m kind of doubting if I should paint one of my collages on top, or leave it abstract. Thoughts?

A little peek into my art-space. It’s not big, but it’s a very good place to be in :) I’ve already spend so many hours here; making, thinking, reading or just looking at the pieces i’ve been working on. Onto very many more. Huge thanks to @nadine.vannijen for the picture🔥

Yellow day, 2024. 60 x 30 cm. Oil on canvas

Ik ben dan klei, 2024. Olieverf op doek. 170x120 Mega dankbaar voor de mogelijkheid om aan deze mooie expositie mee te doen. In deze post een aantal foto’s van mijn werk tijdens de opening. (Zoveel waardering voor mijn trotse oma’s op de eerste foto) Meer info over de expositie en de kunstwerken: @beautiful.distress Foto’s: @daphne_severeijns

Define gravity, 2024. Oil on canvas. 55x40 cm. A painting about bravery. As many of you know, I teach art at a primary school, and I am constantly floored by the brazenness and bravery of kids. They are a force. I see myself in so many little ones, trying to get a grip on an incredibly overwhelming world. So this is a painting about being terrified out of your mind by the thing that should be “normal” and the power in doing them anyways. #fineart #contamporaryart #childhood #oiloncanvas #oilpainting #memories

Ik ben dan klei, 2024. Olieverf op doek. 170 x 120 cm. Here are two closeups of the painting I have made for the upcoming exposition “onzichtbaar verlies”. Its a painting of the wonders and hardships of seeing someone you love in pain. This painting among many other beautiful pieces will be show at @beautiful.distress in Amsterdam! More info on the last slide :)

Hands are just my favorite to paint. They have it all, the shadows, textures, folds, details and such feeling. This is also a bit of an update of the painting I’ve been working of for the exposition “onzichtbaar verlies”. It’s been a puzzle and a half, but also really cool, and I’ve learned so much throughout the making of this piece. #fineart #paintingprocess #paintedhands #oiloncanvas #contemporaryart #oilpainting

Some of the circle-drawings I do when I’m in need of something repetitive. These calm my brain down like nothing else! #drawing #circledrawing #sketchbook #pencildrawing #fineliner

Some progress of the painting I’ve been working on. These are only the first layers, so lots of change to come. This painting is for a exposition called “onzichtbaar verlies” and you can come visit it from march! Updates and more info are coming :))

Welcome to my room! My studio doesn’t have enough floorspace for a canvas this size, so the bedroom floor it is :) This is the biggest canvas I’ve ever stretched myself, maybe even the biggest I’ve worked on. But it’s for a very special project I’m beyond excited about! You’ll hear more soon enough… Also, I’m curious if you’d like to see more bits and pieces of my process? I’m enjoying sharing a bit more than just the finished works so if any of you want to see more, just let me know!! #fineart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #canvasstretching

Unmoored, 2023. Oil on canvas. 16x20 cm. More coming soon :) #fineart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #oiloncanvas

Not the most *aesthetic* video, but I’ve been trying to get this little bit done and today I finally managed to find the time (and energy) :) Now I just have the background left (which I still don’t have a clue what to do with… help) #art #artprogress #workinprogress #fineart #contemporaryart #artistsoninstagram #oilpainting #oiloncanvas

A post about trying? I took this picture a couple of weeks ago in my studio. And to be honest a lot of time I spend in my studio is spend like this; not knowing what to do next, seeing so many unfinished paintings before me. I feel rushed a lot of the time, like I’m already falling behind. This freedom of having a space to create, and make entirely my own also comes with so many challenges. The work can be hard, but also so rewarding. Im learning to be kind while pushing myself to learn more and more. To enjoy making mistakes and find peace is the slow days, to let them be cocoons.

Recollection 004, 2023. Oil on canvas. 90 x 70 cm. SOLD This might be one of my personal favorites. It hold lots of memories that became intertwined, both good and complicated. I think thats a thing I’m striving for in a lot of my work, the way thing can be both happy and difficult, warm and isolating, and still be something you can treasure. I’m so incredibly happy with the new home this painting has found, and I know it will be treasured there as well. #fineart #contemporaryart #oil #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #memories #red #painter #artist

I’ve scanned in some of my sketchbook pages :) here are a few of them! Some general themes: hands, circles, silly Kpop boys, and family pictures✨ Somehow I find a lot of freedom in my sketchbook that I have yet to find in my paintings. The pressure to make it mean something is totally gone, and I just draw purely because I like a certain picture. I love the practice i get out of it and it gives me space for lots of play! #sketchbook #drawing #coloredpencil #art #kpop

Gently slipping, 2023. Oil on unprimed canvas. 24 x 30 cm. Another new small study. I love how quickly this one came to be. It’s the first time I worked on unprimed canvas, and it’s such a wildly different way of painting. I love the space the canvas claimed up in this piece, and the roughness of my first sketch surprised me so much I kept most of it in. Its definitely one of my personal favorites. #fineart #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #unprimedcanvas #red #memories

Recollection 006, 2023. Oil on canvas. 80 x 60 cm. SOLD #fineart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting #art #oiloncanvas #red

This big canvas intimidated me like crazy. It’s the biggest painting i’ve ever started, and to be honest I’ve been putting it of for over a month. Taking this much space for softness, connection and intimacy feels strangely rebellious, and I’m loving it. It might not turn out, it might end up being painted over, but for now I’m greatly looking forward to exploring everything that will go into this painting. (Also hi reels?) #fineart #comtemporaryart #oilpainting #oil #paintingprocess #art #painter #red #memories

Respite, 2023. Oil on canvas. 20x20 cm A small photo study that I’m actually really happy with. I primed the canvas with acrylic binder, which is transparent. In the corner you get a little peak of the fabric itself, and i feel like it really grounds the painting. What I really wanted to show in this painting was a sort of weighted feeling. I have such vivid memories of laying still on the couch or in a chair, the world existing behind my eyelids, but me not participating. Knowing you had to move eventually but needing that feeling to last at least a little bit longer. #fineart #contemporaryart #oilpainting

One of my current works in progress, 55 x 40 cm. I’m so happy with the shapes of this piece. I think it might be a good one #fineart #oilpainting #contemporaryart #red #yellow #workinprogress #wip #paintingprocess

Recollection 005, 2023. Oil on canvas. 80x60 This is one of the first paintings in the series, where things really started clicking together. Funnily enough it’s also a painting I struggled a lot with. This dynamic between cold and intimate can be quite hard to capture, and it took me a while to get it to a place I liked. #fineart #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart #red #memories #art

Recollection 002, 2023. Oil on canvas. 70x60 cm This is the second painting in the series “recollect our scraped knees”. Its one I left a long long time before deciding it was finished. The emptiness scared me, but I think it also shows the vibrant, somewhat abrasive nature a hole can have. How something not being their can take up more space then the things that are. #painting #art #fineart #contemporarypainting #oilpainting #red

A little over a week ago we got the chance to showcase our work. It was hectic and truly wild sometimes, but also an experience I will always treasure. The opportunity to talk with people about something you’re so passionate about, and see the way paint can reach out, was really freaking wonderful. The paintings I have spend the last months on are all about memories, and the ways those change and shift overtime. The brooding nature they possess and how they can feel like a world all of their own making. The duality and fine line that exist between warm and scolding, encompassing and suffocation, is fascinating to me. Also pictured in the last photo are some of the wonderful people that made up my year. I’m so grateful that I got the chance to get to know all these artist and educators and I can’t wait to see what each of them will do next!!

Recollection 008, 2023. Oil on canvas. 60x60 cm. SOLD. #painting #art #fineart #oilpainting #red #bike

Recollection 011, 2023. Oil on canvas. 90x50 cm. Part of the series 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘴 In a little over a week you can come see this painting at our finals exhibition! We’ve been working our butts of, but its really starting to look great :) #art #fineart #painting #oilpainting #process #red #memories #recollections

This is a picture from a while back. I love painting hands, the little details that make it feel lively are so interesting to me! #fineart #painting #oilpainting #hands #artist #red #workinprogress

These are some of the paintings I’m currently working on :) I keep struggling with being overly critical, but maybe that’s a thing many of us do. So often I get sort of stuck seeing all the parts I dislike, and want to change. But also; I made these! And they are really pretty cool✨ #oilpainting #paintingprocess #fineart #portrait

Mega veel liefde voor deze braam🖤 Ik heb heerlijk gedanst met jou! (Waar keken wij naar? Zo interessant waren onze schoenen toch niet?)

Lievelings kiekjes van mijn favoriete knakworstjes. Mega genoten van jullie deze vakantie 🦕

2021 - het jaar van absurd veel boeken, een bos helemaal van jou, water overal, wonen op een vogelstraat, gesprekken die NIET over -dat onderwerp- gingen en minstens vier gezonde obsessies. Een goeie 3,75 sterren.

Heel hard wensend dat hier kabouters wonen

👀

“iets over vogels” [maart 2020]

[speciaal hiervoor m’n haar geverfd]

van die fijne “vakantie analoogjes”

voor altijd naar boven kijkende

ik heb 𝘷𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘴 in mijn buik. ze zijn wat groot en ongemakkelijk. maar dat went vast.

i love writing, in the same way i love dancing (and feeling). meaning i’m not very good at it yet. but i want to be, so i’m learning. and practicing. so this is me, doing just that.