Pressing Matters Magazine

Super happy with this feature (and cover photo) in Pressing Matters magazine issue 26! Pressing Matters is all about printmaking artists, their creative processes and passion for print. Expect inky fingers, creative workspaces, sketchbooks and prints made using all kinds of techniques and mediums. Photo credits: Axel van Dijk @axelfreelens WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO YOUR CURRENT…

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Wheatear lino bird portrait

Happy to show you this finished new bird portrait! It’s a reduction linoleum print with 14 (!) colour layers. It’s the 11th of this series of bird portraits I’m working on. This one has the most number of layers of all the birds I made so far. The portrait is inspired by the Wheatear and…

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Open studio September 2024

Open studio: 4 open studio days are organized in September! you are very welcome to visit my studio on September 14, 15, 21 & 22 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. So if you are near by one of these days, stop by and say hi! I will be offering the latest prints of several…

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XL flowers reduction lino print

In between moving to a new home, renovating during the warmest days of the year, decluttering, packing and unpacking boxes, caring for a stressed cat and dog, I did steel time to make new work. I’m happy to show you these new freshly finished linoleum reduction prints! I had a lot of fun making these…

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Jackdaw reduction print

A new finished bird portrait! It’s the 10th reduction linoleum print in this series I’m working on. For this Jackdaw I printed 10 color layers. It is a limited edition of 65 prints, for each color layer I carve away more linoleum from the same block of linoleum. Never before have I made so much…

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12 layers flower reduction print

Happy to show you these freshly finished new reduction linoleum prints! I printed 12 colour layers for this piece. I think a little explanation is in order here, since I printed the same yellow a total of 5 times at different moments in the process. After each color I printed this yellow one again so…

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Solo expositie

Hapje, drankje, praatje en veel grafiek! Je bent van harte welkom bij de opening van mijn solo-expositie op zaterdag 11 mei om 14.00 uur in het Buisman Gebouw in Hoorn waar ik sinds een jaar mijn atelier heb. Grafiek heeft altijd een belangrijke rol gespeeld in mijn werk. De laatste vijf jaar heb ik mij…

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Magpie reduction linoleum print

Finished new bird portrait! It’s a reduction linoleum print with 12 (!) colour layers. It’s the 9th of a series of bird portraits I’m working on. The portrait is inspired by the Magpie. I do mix all colors myself and I have to make a lot of color tests to achieve these vibrancy and shades…

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Love birds reduction lino print

Finished these new reduction linoleum prints! I made 2 colour versions of this larger size lino piece, a pink/red colour scheme and a green/ blue one, which is not the usual colour style for me to work with but I like a lot actually. They are limited edition print runs. Each print is individually inked…

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