Current
Sow Thistle, 2024
60 x 50 cm
Oil on linen
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Current and planned Expositions
Amsterdam Joods Historische Museum- Joods Museum Junior
Permanent exposition for children in the Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum
Drawing and Painting lessons
Drawing and painting lessons - Atelier Groeten van Marc
Wednesday evenings, 19:00 - 21:30 in Amsterdam West
Lessons taught in Dutch and English
New courses starting in September 2025 - Cultuurcentrum Wherelant
Purmerend
Lessons taught in Dutch
Schildercursus in Acryl, maandag ochtend 9:30 - 12:30 en maandag middag 13:30 - 16:00
Aquarel Schildercursus, dinsdag middag 13:30 - 16:00
Tekenen in Pastel cursus, vrijdag ochtend 10:00 - 12:30
In the Studio
Fox and Cubs, detail, 2023
32 x 24 cm
Soft pastel and coloured pencil on paper
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I haven't updated my website for quite awhile! It is time, and I am working on sorting and selecting photos to be able to show what I have made in the past few years. In the meantime here is a small overview:
In the summer of 2023, after five years of painting "gunscapes" (and seeing that they did absolutely nothing to promote world peace! Go figure!) I needed a lighter topic. My mother was turning eighty and I decided that I would try to create eighty artworks of flowers in honour of her.
Sow Thistle, 2023
42 x 59,4 cm
Oil pastel and coloured pencil on paper
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In the summer of 2024 I began painting flowers with gunscape backgrounds. This series of paintings is deeply anti-war and very personal. I am just now starting to post them fully on social media. Four of these paintings have been in expositions in Amsterdam in the past year.
Hybrid, 2025
60 x 50 cm
Oil on linen
For a few years now I have been fascinated by how just blue, green and a horizon line form a landscape.
What happens if you put the green on the top? I also love the idea of trying to break the rules of atmospheric perspective, where things fade into the distance. Is it possible to paint landscapes where the horizon comes towards you? I had used the idea of reverse atmospheric perspective in one of my painting classes but hadn't started working on the idea myself until this summer.
Horizon Weirding 2025
40 x 50 cm
Oil on hand prepared linen
I have also been taking etching lessons for the past year and a half.
Sow Thistle, 2024
Etch
12 x 9 cm
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I continue to research and try out art materials, new and old. I am beginning to try my hand at creating etching mediums from asphalt. I am also starting to paint with lavender oil in an attempt to reduce my use of petroleum based solvents. I recently was able to purchase new professional watercolors, allowing me to experience the qualities of pigments I have never used before. So exciting!
Contact me for lessons if you are interested in learning about how to:
Prepare a canvas with rabbit skin glue and handmade primer
Paint fat over lean in oil paint and use painting mediums
Make pastels, watercolor, tempera and oil paint by hand
Create thixotropic paint similar to that which Rembrandt used to create impasto textures
Handmade pastels in irregular shapes.
Mulling white watercolour paint.
Please feel free to make an appointment to visit my studio or to contact me if you are interested in purchasing an artwork. You can follow the development of my work on Instagram and Facebook .
