Original artwork description:

Painting: Acrylic, picture, graingel medium, gel medium, satin coating on Aluminium, Canvas, Wood, Paper.

My work is a mix of different pictures/images and paints which I combine on the computer and canvas to create a new image. My favorite subject is the female face. Most of the portraits that I create are a mix of four to five different faces, mostly of different races and origins. On my computer, I create a new, non-existing person out of them. Besides creating and building new persons I also take pictures in my studio of models that I use. Together with these pictures and the pictures of old walls, grunge posters and all kinds of other interesting subjects I create a new image. I also use already existing pictures that I manipulate in photoshop and create a new image. When the digital part is ready I print the image and start painting over it. I create thick structures and a lot of layers of paint and gel over them. In this way, I try to make the digital image tangible again. My work is not so much about explanation and concept it is a game and all about the image. I start with no idea in general but by looking at images that interest me and by mixing them, slowly a new image evolves.

For this new series of original works, I took pictures in "Riserva Statale Badia Prataglia" in Italie. the pictures are the base for the painting. I have created a thick layer on the picture with gel mediums and started painting over them. the painting is one of a kind artwork and has a lot of structure and is very detailed. You can almost dive into this forest landscape.

Materials used:

Print, grain gel medium, heavy gel medium, acrylics, satin coating

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