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My recent works are a series of portraits of women. My goal is to portrait 197 inspiring women across the world, each representing one country. I am currently woring on a large project "Ronduit Uitgesproken" to paint 22 women from the North of Holland. 

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Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and, therefore, also half of its potential. Gender equality, besides being a fundamental human right, is essential to achieve peaceful societies, with full human potential and sustainable development. This is a subject close to my heart and is the core of my work of the past years.

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Other works are influenced and question my identity in different periods in my life, like being Dutch, living in Bali, Australia, being at university, becoming a mother and finding my voice as a women.

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I am interested to change roles, to play with our perspective, to look at life from a different point of view. Once started on a canvas my subjects are painted up-side-down, I often flip my canvas during the painting process. 

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It is a liberating technique which offers they eye to discover instead of to paint what we already know. You can see this as a metaphor in life. 

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We have to constantly process our environment as if new, to not fall into the trap of illusion, to keep a fresh eye and keep being in awe of life as if a fresh discovery.  

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see below for an overview or click here for work in commission