Acrylic on canvas
72” x 72”
Acrylic on canvas
36” x 36”
Acrylic on canvas
36” x 36”
Acrylic on canvas
36” x 36”
Acrylic on canvas
60” x 60”
Acrylic on canvas
36” x 36”
Private Collection of Lynette Harper
48” x 48”
Acrylic on panel
s.s. Groote Beer references a photograph, taken in the 1950s, of my mother’s family playing games on the deck of the ship on which they immigrated from the Netherlands to Canada. It is part of a series of semi-abstract, large scale figurative works that focus on formal experimentation and the materiality of paint, exploring family history, memory, and imagination.
48” x 48”
acrylic on panel
Moeder en Kinderen references an old family photo taken during my childhood growing up near the Great Lakes. From the vantage point of the present, the photograph evokes visual and tactile images: the feeling of hot sun and cool water, my mother’s bathing cap and the bright plastics of children’s floaties. Experimenting with layering and the fluidity of paint on a flat, non-porous surface, I have tried to recover and convey that memory.
48” x 48”
acrylic on canvas
Show of Force, which takes an old photograph as its starting point, references my father’s experience as a prisoner of war in Indonesia during World War II, and later his mandatory service in the Dutch Armed Forces. In those environments, order and conformity could be matters of life and death, with deep ramifications for the individual experience of nationalism and identity. In this painting, the soldier’s camouflaged helmets have become exuberantly and excessively ornamental, suggesting an absurd and frivolous defiance.