Looking back on your journey, what personal memories or experiences from your time in Madrid most deeply shaped the layerd, movement-filled digital images you create today?

I lived for a while in Madrid and this fantastic city suits me really good. In that period I stayed in Madrid, I received lots of energy and I became really relaxed, despite of Madrid being a busy cosmopolitan city. The relaxation has had a great influence on my artwork. Madrid is also a green city. There are so much fantastic parks and gardens over there. My art has always nature influences in it. I’m really a big fan of the Botanical garden in Madrid. Where I lived nearby. In the parks and gardens I always photograph trees, flowers and water. That’s what I call the ‘source images’ from which new images can emerge.

Your work blend sharp and blurred elements, pen strokes, and photographic layers. Can you share how this process mirrord aspects of your own identity or emotional landscape?

I was the owner of a graphic design an illustration studio, for 28 years. the illustrations wich I made on commission, were completely thought out in my sketchbook and tuned to the article. My current artworks are totaly made by intuition. But I always look at my work from an aesthetic point if view.
I can’t explain how my artworks arises. it arises. And it gives me a liberating feeling. I don’t have a sketch plan, such as my illustrations that were created under time pressure (deadlines!). Now I give my art time to emerge. I make a lot of experiments. Also all my images are playfull. In everyday life, I have a helicopter view. But in my art, I pay a lot of attention to details. You will see that when you enlarge my images. I need all the details, to tell my story.

In Arts to Hearts Magazine Issue 12, how does presenting your art to a global audience invite you to reflect on or express the essence of ‘This Is Me’?

I worries a lot about climat change. That’s a topic that is close to my heart. I choose it as a theme for my art. By climate change, nature is totaly dislocated. In winter temprature is much higher than standard and in summer it’s sometimes already autumn or extreme hot. But nature in general is also change. There arises whole new species of plants. In places where they didn’t occur at first. This whole new changing process is what I want to show in my images and gives me enough freedom to play with the theme.

Comparing ‘Movimento entre las flores’, ‘A la orilla del agua’, and ‘Real Gardin Botanico’, how do the differencesin technique or mood across these pieces trace your evolution or shifting perspectives as an artist?

As an illustrator, I made figurative photographic images. Now that I have time and space to develop myself as a visual artist, I notice that I really like to experiment. New techniques emerge from these experiments. As I indicated earlier, I make a lot of -as I called- ‘source images’. I take sharp photos, but also a lot of out of focus or blurred photo’s. That calls for a response of me when I’m working on an image. That’s how the sharpness and blur in my final images are created. My work has become increasingly abstract. When I surprise myself, I know I’ve created a good work of art.

When viewers encounter your images, what inner truths, vulnerabilities, or hopes do you wish they sense about who you are- both as an artist and as a person?

What I already said earlier: I only consider my images good enough, when I have surprised myself. I hope the viewer is also surprised and wonders: what do I see exactly? That you have to look twice. Playfullness is also a part of my character, and I hope that people will see that in my images. Because my current images arises intuitively, I might make a few starts and continue with the one that seems most interesting to me, to edit more. Work on progress is always in my head for days. It always give me an exciting feeling when I’m creating something new. Actually, it’s a big of a cliche, but being able to express myself creatively, is a necessity for me. That I can develop myself as a visual artist. The need for development grew so much that I decided to stop my design studio in the beginning of 2025. I simply didn’t have anough time for my art, at that time, because I had too many assignments. Finally I can work towards to my first exhibition.