16 | februari | 2011

Vandaag mijn kledingkast opgeruimd. Ik zal niet de enige zijn die eenzame sokken heeft……

Today I tied up my closet. I will not be the only one with lonely socks….

My Bio

I am a Dutch artist, living in the southeastern part of Holland. Both I do for the last 10 years of my life.

As a kid I draw full time, won several competitions. The school director urged my parents to put me on an academy for arts. I guess it was forsaken that I do something with it in my future working life. I choose not to. There was a lot more to learn in the world which I didn't know off. I end up in corporate life, mostly as management assistant. I learned a lot. Also I had to consider the time, a realistic artist had no chance in the seventies and eighties. And it didn't help that my parents were totally against an artist career. My creative activities mostly were in music. I had a choir for 10 years and played the piano, mostly my own singer/songer writings. Kate Bush was my favorite back than, but I can't sing so high. Glad my parents didn't complain about that ;-).

But at the end of the nineties I broke... after a few misfortunes in my life, I had to convess: I have to do where I am great at. I started drawing again and discovered that I still could do it well. A journalist discovered my pencil drawings and I end up making weekly columns in the newspaper. They also asked me to write for it. And I did. A world of new opportunities opened for me. But being an artist, writing for the newspaper and also caring for two little children on my own was a bit too much. I choose to be a full time dedicating artist. And bit by bit I am beginning to understand it and perhaps the most important, I am beginning to understand myself.