I am interested in portraiture in the broadest sense of the word.
I am fascinated by thoughts and theories about character and personality and how people through time have tried to read and interpret the faces of other people.

In recent years I have been working on series of portrait, character and figure studies based on drawings by other artists.
I am particularly interested in the artists' perceptions of people and the images created from these perceptions. What was it these artists saw that allowed them to make this work of art? How is it to look through the eyes of an artist; how is it to be an artist? By using the work of other artists I have defined and redefined my own approach of making art.

By using this approach I do not intend to copy the work of other artists, but to interpret it and make it my own. I am seeking tension between my work, the new piece I make and the work of art that I am working from. The works I make are independent, but they refer to the other works of art. They are unbound and bound at the same time. For me they are orientation, reference and a challenge at the same time.

In my latest works I open up this approach more and more. Themes which used to be subthemes in earlier series, like variations in expression or the expression of strong emotions, get more space in this new body of work.

My starting point is no longer studying the works of one artist at the time in a series of works, but the exploration of a theme for example, the expression of strong emotion. I am using images from different sources, picking and sampling freely from gestures and expressions within the theme, collecting and investigating combinations to make a new work of art. This way of working is somewhat more intuitive than the previousmethod.
I am moving towards finding out new facets of my long term investigation of my own motivations and preoccupations as an artist.