Antistar Exlude

2025. Acrylic, ink, and soft pastel on paper. 50 x 65 cm.
I: Incitatus, II: Pertinax, III: Borystenes, IV: Bucephaluz.

2025. Acrylic, ink, pencil, and screen print on paper. Four sheets of 65 x 50 cm. each
The sea loves the wind, the taught her how to throw her foam onto the rocks. But he doesn’t know how to love, and disappears every time. Although the wind cannot love her back, the sea loves him all the same. Inspired by a poem by Loudovikos ton Anogeion.

2024. Acrylic, ink, soft pastel, and collage on paper. 100 x 140 cm. The power dynamics in a family can be damaging and suffocating. Looking at the wall paintings in the Camera degli Sposi at the Ducal Palace in Mantua (Italy), the depicted persons to me came accross as a maffia clan, with the usual roles known from The Godfather. I chose to paint the soft power, represented by the mother and the ‘whisperer’, with the boss reduced to a saddened child.

2024. Acrylic, and soft pastel on paper. 95 x 180 cm.
How to describe what the world around us sees when it looks at us? This dreamy imaginary space was inspired by a poem by Odysseus Elytis.

2024. Acrylic, soft pastel, and marker pen on paper. 70 x 150 cm.
When is violence in war of conquest legitimate and when can it be defined as senseless violence. The work is inspired by tales about the conquest of Afghanistan by Alexander the Great.

2024. Soft pastel, and collage on paper. 100 x 70 cm.
“When you don’t speak the truth, your hands will grow from your grave”, my mother said. Not being able to live by your convictions, being ostracized for seeing things differently, is timeless. Witches, is what they used to call them. Inspired by a novel where the truth-seeking father of Till Eulenspiegel was convicted by the inquisition for supposedly being a witch.

2024. Acrylic, and soft pastel on paper. 50 x 70 cm.
Where to go from here? How to find your purpose? What is love? These universal questions are what St. Francis of Assisi ands his fellow brothers struggled with. Inspired by the opera of Olivier Messiaen.

2024. Acrylic, and pencil on paper. 70 x 50 cm.

2024. Acrylic, soft pastel, and collage on paper. 100 x 120 cm.
Longing or missing? What is the difference? Being in Paradise can be a bliss, but when a loved one is not there, what is it worth? What is there to do? Preparing a room?
Inspired by a poem by Odysseus Elytis. The accompanying work ‘Et te voir aussi a moitie passer sur l’eau’ (2024) is about the same poem.

2024. Acrylic, silk screen, stenciling, and soft pastel on paper. 67 x 50 cm. Longing or missing? What is the difference? Being in Paradise can be a bliss, but when a loved one is not there, what is it worth? What is there to do? Preparing a room?
Inspired by a poem by Odysseus Elytis. The accompanying work ‘Et te pleurer a moitie au paradis’ (2024) is about the same poem.

2024. Acrylic, soft pastel, and grasses on canvas. 80 x 60 cm. Paradise is a dangerous place. The quest for it can be a driving force. But what when you find it? Will you stay, or shall you go back to whom you have left behind? Better not to find Paradise, some say. This was the dilemma Alexander the Great faced when he reached Nysa (near present day Jalalabad, Afghanistan): a place so lush and green, so much like home, that he decided to withheld the spot to his men, as not to weaken their spirits.

2024. Acrylic, soft pastel, and collage on canvas. 110 x 40 cm.

2024. Pencil on paper. 70 x 50 cm.

2024. Acrylic, and soft pastel on canvas. 60 x 80 cm. Where does the light originate? We know the scientific explanation, but what else can be said? Was a sunbeam born somewhere? In a reflection perhaps… in water perhaps…

2024. Silk screen, woodcut monoprint, collage, and soft pastel on paper. 65 x 135 cm.

2024. Acrylic, and soft pastel on paper. 65 x 50 cm.

2024. Silk screen, acrylic, pencil and soft pastel on paper. 65 x 45 cm.

2024. Acrylic, and soft pastel on paper. 65 x 50 cm.

2023. Aquarel, and color pencil on paper. 30 x 21 cm.

2023. Woodcut monoprint, and pencil on paper. 32 x 63 cm.

2023. Soft pastel on paper. 65 x 45 cm. What does a traveller take with her on a journey? Stuff, and lots of memories. What one loves, a selection of images, of snapshots. An island, a flower, an arriving breeze, a curtain, a caress.

2023. Aquarel, and crayon on paper. 30 x 42 cm.

2022. Acrylic, and crayon on paper. 100 x 80 cm.

2022. Woodcut monoprint, acrylic, and soft pastel on paper. 110 x 90 cm.

2022. Woodcut and stencil monoprint on paper. 27 x 27 cm.

2022. Collage with monoprints, sepia toning, acrylic, and soft pastel on paper. 54 x 73 cm.

2022. Acrylic, crayon, and collage on paper. 100 x 80 cm.

2022. Monoprint, crayon, and collage on paper. 60 x 45 cm.

2022. Stencil print, Werkman-technique, crayon, and collage on paper. 60 x 32 cm.

2022. Acrylic, stenciling, and soft pastel on paper. 65 x 50 cm

2021. Woodcut monoprint, and ink. 50 x 70 cm.

2021. Aquarel, and crayon on paper. 42 x 88 cm.

2021. Acrylic, soft pastel, and collage. 70 x 90 cm.

2021. Collage of silk screen and monoprints, and crayon on paper. 85 x 60 cm.