Poetry, Stories & Visual Art, e-poetry

Hildegard von Bingen
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2025
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Erik Satie
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2025
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Mozart

Mozart
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2024
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"I am Athena, child of Zeus. I always stand near you and take care of you, in all your hardships."

Jack Kerouac
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2023
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Nina Simone
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2023
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Isadora Duncan
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2023
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Quintus Ennius
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2023
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San Francesco d'Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2022
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Maria Callas
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2022
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The portraits started with Maria Callas. Years ago, I accidentally saw a video of Callas. The emotion and other world quality of her singing captivated me. Her face seemed fluid; it expressed ten emotions in a second. I had never painted a portrait; I decided to paint her's.

I find other worldliness intriguing. Artists may express an aspect of it. I assume we have a soul, which can be in contact with yet something else. And then, being so open, so dedicated, how to live in this world?

Sappho
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2020
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While preparing the portrait, I imagined it in greens. I didn't like the idea, thought it would turn out ugly. But I kept seeing greens. What to do?

I went to the park, meditated. It was as if Sappho appeared, she asked:
"Shall I help you?"
"Well, yes ..."
"Fresco."

That's the only word she said. I knew that I wouldn't have to paint a fresco (I can't), and the painting wouldn't have to look like one. It would be enough to keep the word in mind while painting. Then the greens were not needed.

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Tempest

Tempest

a series of paintings on climate change, 2017-2018

Abstract paintings 2003-2004

Paintings 2003-2004

Vita Nuova story and paintings
"One evening I was cleaning some energy, quite nasty energy, that had to do with the use of my intuition for struggle for power, in earlier lives. Then it occurred to me that I could meet God. Well, I was willing. A mighty intense light appeared before my eyes, I almost went out of my mind. It was the light where things come from. Because things come from the light, the light has sympathy for all things. This sympathy can be called love." Vita Nuova



Portraits 1995-1996 Homer, Confucius, Virgil, Averroes, Dante, Machiavelli, Shakespeare & Goya