This and the two pieces below are on canvas, measuring 50 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm.

Detail of artwork from previous post.

130 cm x 65 cm, fabric, thread, paint, glue, cement on canvas

Not finished yet.  50 cm x 50 cm - fabric with thread on painted canvas. 

100 cm x 70 cm, ink on paper.

My friend Carole found this on the tip. Yes, it has lots of (trace)... marks on it. She was right to call it Vincent (in true artist's tradition) because the left ear is missing. The man from parcel force did not dare to come into the porch, he thought Vincent was real. So here we have a really good example of artistic illusion.

Part of a larger image on canvas. 

21 Rue Antoine-Thomas, Ivry-sur-Seine.

This is part of a series of five drawings that deal with the sense for the inside feeling in small apartments from when I lived in large urban environments.

25 cm x 25 cm, pencil, ink, fabric, thread.

 

This one fascinates me. My sewn sketches of inner-city structures are on top of another painting of building details.

Floorplan as revealed by an excavation, incomplete. Next to a "dense-ness" of texture.

Plaster, glue, thread and paints on canvas 23 cm x 32 cm x 4 cm.

A thin layer of lines, hinting at buildings and human activity sit on top of heavily textured material. Glue, varnish, acrylic paint and inks

130 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm

Materials work their own chemistry here. The lower areas have lots of texture, the top parts are delicate linework only produced by the touch of yarn heavy with paint.

Urban environments were the visual topic here.

The eye needs to keep busy bringing this together as an image. I like this as an interesting experiment.  Acrylic paint on canvas, approx. A4 size.

Urban structures

Responding to a call for entries by the CUBE (Centre for the Urban Built Environment), I took my sketchbook to town and started drawing.

This is a detail of a 150 cm long "sketch" that I made from my pencil drawings. Here, every line is a bit of thread sewn on transparent fabric. As sewing by hand is slower than drawing it allows for a different kind of control and encouraged abstraction.

Manmade plains, intersecting and the memory of a fireplace. 

What has happened through the passage of time might be left as a ruin or only as a memory. The traces that are left of both and how that could be visualized is something I like to explore.

Part of an archeological dig or a view into a busy urban sky at night. Either seems to reveal a lot of structural detail but without allowing to fully understand it....

Landscape with hints to past events.

Acrylic paint on canvas, both 50 cm x 50 cm. Sold.

Textile object or drawing?

 These are "just" some textures that I like to see together, unfinished and giving me ideas for other artwork. I find that the unfinished-ness of some artwork is so intriguing because it still carries all options for development.

Objects that have a secret life of their own, that they don't easily "talk about". 

Acrylic paint and ink on canvas, each 50 cm x 50 cm.

Secret or imagined wilderness.

I hope nobody wants to buy these. They are too good to go. (or nearly) 

They make me think about the vastness of frozen mountain areas and plains, before urbanisation set in.

Still a material experiment. I would like to make a whole wall-full of these. Fabric has been sewn onto itself and cuts have been made to release the tension and flatten the relief. A certain pattern seems to develop from this.

then the sand moved in

What sand, storm and erosion can do to (an image of) structures that might have been made by man. 

Acrylic paint and plaster on canvas, 130 cm x 140 cm.

Building vagueness

65 cm x 135 cm x 4 cm, acrylic paint on canvas.

Life liquid

100 cm x 70 cm, Light sensitive emulsion on paper. Sold.

heart

100 cm x 70 cm, Light sensitive emulsion on paper. Sold.