I have graduated from the academy of arts in the Netherlands, my major was fine arts. I was very much into linocuts and screen printing, and my paintings reflected a lot of influences of traditional printmaking. Since then I gradually switched from painting to illustrating, where my desire for meticulousness seemed more fitting.

Most of my illustrations are digital nowadays, but I love to stay inspired by printmaking. The clarity and simplicity, the charm of misprints, the paper's texture and the way it effects the ink, the colors. I construct my images by layering semi-transparent color areas, creating new colors. I rarely use more than 3 or 4 basic colors, including the color of the paper. The underlying paper itself is becoming more and more important to me lately. I like to leave the essential parts of an image untouched, showing the (off-)white and the paper's structure. 

This image evolved in a playful way. I experimented with patterns, structures, colors and architectural forms. I am strongly influenced by my father who's an architect. This is the first drawing which revolved purely around form and perspective, it was a turning point for me.