My works explore the intersection of memory, landscape, and materiality through the medium of encaustic painting. I use molten wax, pigment, and heat to build layered, abstract landscapes that evoke rather than depict the natural world.
Texture is central to my process and expression. Each piece is built slowly—layer upon layer—through scraping, fusing, and reworking, creating a tactile history within the painting itself.
I am inspired by the beauty surrounding me. When living in The Netherlands my work was inspired by the ever-present rain: its rhythms, its reflective surfaces, and the way it transforms the world into something both familiar and elusive.
Once I moved to the Okanagan I couldn’t help but be stunned by the amazing nature. So in the last few years my paintings have gradually become abstractions of the landscape. With that, my colour palette changed from the dark greys and blues in The Netherlands to the sunny, brighter colours of the Okanagan.
I teach at the Vernon Art Centre and I exhibit regularly.
Member of:
Federation of Canadian Artists (exhibiting status)
International Encaustic Artists (IEA), USA
National Association of Artists (NABK), The Netherlands
Front of Bicycle Gallery in Basel, Switzerland
Works for sale at: The Vibe (Vernon), The Vernon Community Arts Centre
and the Vernon Public Art Gallery.
Exhibitions
Canada
- Ratio Coffee, Vernon BC, December – February
- Coldstream Community Centre, Coldstream BC, October
- Grey Gallery, Owen Sound ON, “Figuratively Speaking”, 4 – 7 September
- Caetani Centre, Vernon, part of the silent auction, August
- Federation Gallery (FCA, juried exhibition), Vancouver, 25 March- 13 April
- Online exhibition, “When in Rome, the art of travel”, International Encaustic Artists (IEA)
2024 - Lake Country Art Gallery,’Under 200′ exhibition, 30 November – 21 December
- ArtWalk Festival, Lake Country BC, 7 & 8 September
- Peachland Art Gallery (FCA, juried exhibition), Peachland BC, 29 June – 28 July
- Federation Gallery (FCA, juried exhibition), Vancouver, 17 June – 7 July
- Armstrong Spallumcheen Museum and Art Gallery (NOFCA, juried exhibition) Armstrong BC- June
- Lake Country Art gallery, Lake Country BC, 18 March – 11 May
- Performing Arts Centre (NOFCA, juried exhibition), Vernon BC, 18 March – 12 April: 3rd place award
2023 - Federation Gallery (FCA, juried exhibition), Vancouver, 28 Nov – 10 dec
- Art Walk, Lake Country BC, 9 & 10 September 2023
The Netherlands 2020 – 2022
- Kunstroute Paleiskwartier, Den Bosch, The Netherlands, 28 August 2022
- Open Atelierroute 2021, Den Bosch, 16 en 17 October
- NDSM Fuse Amsterdam, Expo 9, May 2021 – June 2021
- Open Studios NDSM Treehouse Amsterdam, Friday 4 December 14.00 – 18.00
- Open Ateliers Amsterdam- Noord, 14 – 15 November 2020 (postponed)
- NDSM Fuse Amsterdam, Expo VIII, September – December 2020
Switzerland 2010 -2018
- Voltahalle Basel, Switzerland, 2018: group exhibition painting
- Front of Bicycle Pop-up Gallery Basel, 2017: exhibition painting
- Biennale Pratteln, Switzerland, 2017: Group exhibition of selected Basel artists
- Basel Art Center Basel, 2016: group exhibition painting
- Hauptort für Gestaltung Basel, 2015: Group exhibition
- BIS Exhibition Room Bottmingen, Switzerland, 2015: solo exhibition painting
- Kunstraum Art Mathieu, Olten, Switzerland 2015: solo exhibition Painting
- Ateliers Florenz, Basel, 2013: solo exhibition photography & painting: “Abstrakte Positionen”
- Art Wall at Centrepoint Basel, 2012: solo exhibition
- Le Triangle, Huningue, France, 2012: “Rencontre Photographique”
- Alte Post Riehen, Switzerland, 2010: group exhibition photography “Emotions”
Education & work
Work experience (in the art world)
- From February 2023, Vernon Community Art Centre: teacher oil painting & encaustics
- 2014 – 2019, BaselPaints: teacher drawing and painting
- 2010 – 2015, BaselPhoto: teacher photography
Education
- Fall 2020, Dutch Atelier of Realistic Art in Haarlem: Painting from the old masters
- April 2018 & 19, Chelsea College of Arts London: Oil Painting courses
- 2009 – 2012, Freie Kunsthochschule Freiburg (Germany): Fine arts – painting
- 2008 – 2011, Zürcher Hochschule der Kunsten: Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Photography
- 2006 – 2008, UCK- Utrecht Centre for Arts: Fine arts – painting, photography and sculpture
- 2000 – 2002, Teacher qualification for vocational and adult education
- 1991 – 1995, Utrecht University- MA English Language and Literature
- 1989 – 1991, Art School, Tilburg, The Netherlands