“Art is for everybody”

Keith Haring

I've always been rather creative. Drawing and painting were already important to me in my years as a teenager. Music has always been a passion of mine too. The walls in my work place are covered with LP covers. I like to combine music with art: I'll never paint without music and I often use lyrics for my art. I usually listen to bands from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. Their music inspires me.

Metropoles, and geography in general, are also a huge inspiration. I do enjoy stunning architecture. I find beauty in ancient historical buildings as well as in dilapidated buildings with broken windows and grafitti on the walls. Just like musicians do with their songs, I'm always trying to create a certain vibe that goes with my artwork.

When following the lessons of my graphic education I learned the basics of the use of typography and graphics, but for the last few years I've been focusing more on mixed media. The greatest thing about this form of art is that one can give existent pictures new life by combining them with different materials and refreshing colours.

From my experience, expressing my creativity has really helped me in the process to recover from PTSD. I'm hoping to inspire other people suffering from PTSD with my passion. I want to show that one can turn negativity into something that has a positive outcome. Bad experiences can lead to beautiful things when it comes to art.

Memory:

"A memory is an experience from the past, one can remember when it is captured by the mind."

Recognition:

"Recognition is a phase of the observation. Out of an unarranged amount of signals, an object gets such constructed that it corresponds with the information from the memory system. Recognising often goes with sentiment or experience."

I'm always painting with these two definitions in my head. The purpose of my art is to bring back memories and emotions.