Artist & Scientist

"Art beyond Research"

Art is Research

All my best wishes for a creative New Year, let nature call!

A short stay in the winter snow, working on long versions of the Painter ás a Warrior (25 x50 cm) and Tschäggättä and other Mask (A3) inspired heads, in walnutink, JG coffee as well as Falu. a preview now. Soon to be shown on my web. If you cannot wait, have a peak at Instant art or Watch My birds

New Heads

Inspired by the Moai's (stone heads) of Easter Island, and seeing Leo Gestel's Spakenburger vissers (1934) in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam I combined these into my 3 Mogai's (wise people a.k.a. as three Kings coming from the East) in mudpaint and wax pastel.

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Instant  art 

A pigment I use for drawing is watersoluble instant coffee. Its ochre like color gives an earthy look to animal figurines and 'selfies'. See ...

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Watch the masks

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Tschäggätta

The tradition of Fasnachtmasks in Wallis, Switzerland

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