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Guerrilla tree planting

Maitland is hot. Literally and figuratively. Yet more and more trees are being cut down in town. And none are being replanted ... Reducing our already low canop...

Let's change some dollars the old fashioned way!

Recently I did some street art in the centre of my home town. Basically it were 22 birds I painted on the boards that were covering the windows of a building th...

Me heading home after a workday

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Nine cat lives (part 9) A random chosen black male

This illustration is meant for the minicontest of @gulugu Click HERE to learn how to join. Nine cat lives (part 9) A random chosen black male Maybe you had expe...

From Taipei to Taichung

In the video below we travelled from Taipei to Taichung by high speed rail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej3gw7zAPe4 You can also find my posts on SteemitWor...

Who was first?

Normally; first there is my painting … … and then Mother Earth imitates me with a pale shadow of my created treasures. That’s how it happens all the time! Being...

More Taipei

After the art fair we had planned a 2 weeks trip through Taiwan, but before we leaving to the south by train, we stayed another few days in Taipei city. We move...

The second mile stone

Nine posts ago I wrote about my career in art. Actually it was the text I wrote for the 'about section' on my new website. I talked about my participation in an...

The first time I saw a haka

A few months after we have arrived in New Zealand. One sunny morning in the centre in Auckland, when we were waiting for our bus, it suddenly became deadly quie...

The making of Protea Madida

Below is a video of the inspiration and the making of one of my larger oil paintings. It was 120 x 180 cm. Sorry, no Dtube (I can't get it working for me). Prot...

The recurring question

Once in a while an artist bumps on the same old question; What is art? During the years I’ve embraced different definitions about the concept of art. Not seldom...

The gardens of the grim reaper (part 1)

In the Netherlands I was used to cemeteries being quite formal. We only visit them (on days other than a funeral) if we had to do something important. Such plac...

Art journal; Childhood memories

The prompt for this art journal was: Create a page about your first memory? I grew up in a small apartment in the old centre of Amsterdam. The rooms in the buil...

How to get attention if you can't afford an expensive car (part 2)

After the black and white dazzle car I couldn't stop. This Fiat Panda got dressed up with a Scottish tartan. We travelled through Europe. Here it just fitted un...

Found a job in a bar

Once I had an art studio in Amsterdam. Near the studio was a bar. I tried to visit the bar as less as possible. About once a week, mostly on Friday when everybo...

Hot ass

Four days a week I open the doors of my art studio from 11am to 5pm. It is winter in Australia and ... cold. Although 'cold in Australia' may be a subjective co...

My about page

Today I finally finished the 'about-page' on my studio-website. One of those jobs ... I started painting quite late. In my late twenties, when I worked as an ac...

Just to stay in touch

This afternoon the handle of my favourite soup bowl broke off. It is quite useless now, unless you eat your soup properly at the diner table. I never do. Food t...

Nine cat lives (part 8) Why I have to go to hell for 1 week

I met cat number 7 for the first time in the psychiatric hospital of Santpoort (in the Netherlands). "Huh? Haha, what were you doing there?" Well, my mother liv...

The fun of an old car

The wheel cover of our Pajero was once sprayed in the same colour of greenish-blue as the car itself, but had peeled off by the harsh New Zealand sun, long ago....