My studio is based in the Netherlands. This is where I combine the things that I love to work with. Like letterforms, lines and handwriting. My work is influenced by typography, calligraphy, weasels, comics and playing cards

My approach to creating art is like an exploration of translating thoughts into physical action leaving marks on a surface. We are constantly translating our thoughts into language, it may be a visual language filled with signs and symbols. Or language expressed through letterforms (using handwriting or designed typefaces.) The artwork is a mediation between me as an artist and you as the observer and interpreter of the artwork. Which makes you the creator of meaning. This line between the defined (the meaningful) and the asemic (the meaningless) is where I position myself as an artist.

I stumbled upon a passage by Oscar Wilde. His quote suited the meaning I was looking for. I was struggling to find my identity and wasn’t able to accept that I had to make art. I had the conviction that without any art degree I was unable to become an artist. But Oscar Wilde opened a door. He wrote this: “If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you to live what some might call the dynamic life but. What I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
Which can be attached to my creative name: Being Anything. Which a few years later turned into Anythingism.