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Vultus est animae imago, et oculi intentiones notant.*
Marcus Tullius Cicero

* The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Portraits painted 2024

Explanations regarding the Portraits

Although it's sometimes unavoidable to paint from photographs instead of the person sitting in front of you, I prefer to work that way if the photograph is good. The famous French painter Jean Auguste Ingres said: "Drawing contains three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything except hue."

While I'm still drawing, I'm trying to understand the person's thoughts and feelings, their fears, hopes and desires, which hopefully will show up in the portrait in the most subtle way, when in the "last half-quarter" of applying the paint, tiny changes of line, shade or hue will give life to the face and go well beyond the photograph.

Portraits
of the Human Voice
(2008)

Explanations regarding the Human Voice series

These paintings are based on recorded voice messages. Using scientific equipment, special software and artistic inspiration, sound waves were transformed into colourful graphics to create 'portraits of the human voice'.

If you are interested in the technical aspects, please click here:

For an explanation of the artistic approach, see this interview with the painter from the period when the 'Human Voice series' was created.

The images were prepared on a computer and then painted on canvas. Regularity was achieved by using an architect's drawing table and stencils that were adapted, sometimes even created, for each painting.

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Portraits painted 2024

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"Nicole et Crème"

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Explanations regarding the Portraits

Portraits of the Human Voice (2008)

"Poem Nr 2"

"Street"

"Home"

"Life"

"Poem no 14"

"Birth"

"The voice of NM Variation Nr. 4"

"Impact"

"The voice of NM Variation Nr. 9"

"Dream"

"Power"

"Poem Nr 7"

"Poem Nr 8"

"Variation on M v4"

"Joy"

"Poem Nr 2"

"Savage"

"Poem Nr 20"

"Knowledge"

Explanations regarding the Human Voice series

Portraits
of the Human Voice
(2008)