Sketchbook

Healthy mind exercises

In the winter of 2016, a friend’s 30-day project inspired me. He produced a new output each day, driven by tight deadlines. I saw how this framework helped him, and I wanted to apply it to something I wanted to improve—drawing.

I started during a trip to Cuba with my dad, using two sketchbooks and some pens. Capturing people, architecture, and animals caught my interest, despite the frustration of not always meeting my own quality standards. What began as a 30-day project evolved into a five-year journey, where I aimed to draw almost daily. While I hit the mark about 90% of the time, I learned to focus on inspiration rather than forcing it.

As the evolution shows, there was an increasing fascination with abstractions, to find a way to combine natural elements and ingredients from surrounding architecture feels like an area not explored enough and has led me to a lot of discoveries.

Abstractions in Amsterdam

My last book in Amsterdam was a steady grid of imaginary fantasy worlds that were the potential basis of some new paintings. Due to my move out of Netherlands and my life story I have these upon me to explore on a bigger canvas.

Italian giornattas

Drawings from 2019 from Germany and Italy captured in Napoli.

Germany sketches

Select sketches from my time in Koln while my father was in hospital. There was a lot of time where all I could do was wait and I would go on about my closest inspiration either reference or imagining.

New York memories

Photographed in Brick Lane from the summer of 2019, in admiration of the surrounding architecture of Central Park, some of Wall Street and Gramercy. Would do all corners and wonder points across the avenues if I had the time.

Other series

New Ways of Looking

Merging ancient gestures with natural and graphic elements

Clockwork

Symbolism in a dream-like carpe diem state

An Ode to Cinema

The alluring effect of vintage cinema lighting