The artist

Born practically with pen in hand, I have been involved in creative endeavours as long as I can remember. My other big interests include the study of nature in its many expressions, making music, building sculptural clay huts, and contemplating the world of the unseen.

I have a hard time keeping these different domains apart, though – the splendor of the living world informs our aesthetic sense, doesn’t it? And truth and beauty are connected in a way which to explore means diving right into the world of the subconscious, the archetypes, the higher self - and before you know, you’re up to your neck in mysticism. At least that’s the way it appears to me.

I have come to embrace that, though, this borderless fluidity.

To me, making art, wether I catch an insight straight from the subconscious mind, or notice a scene out in the world of matter that urges me to paint it, is an act of bringing something in from beyond the veil, of breaking through the grey cardboard fakeness of our modern life to capture something from out there, from eternal reality, and then to bring it back in so we can behold it and be reminded.

We have come a long way, you and I and the nine billion others out there. In our pursuit of wealth and power, we have lost and burned and wasted too much. We have become spoiled and jaded, we have lost our way, we’ve gone too far, and if we go much further, it will end badly.

I’m sure you know what I mean.

That much has become clear to me: when people wonder why the modern world looks so ugly, where the magic went – I tell them that we traded it in. We sacrificed truth and beauty at the altar of material wealth, in a quest for power.

It seems to me that this quest is coming to an end, though, it doesn’t seem to pay off.

So we will come to our senses and see that we were mistaken. We never had to travel far to find our place and learn the truth. It was always here, right under our noses. We just have to learn to pay attention again, and we will see.

This is what drives me as an artist: I want to speak to your sense of beauty, of the eternal, of the Good and the Real. The artists of the 20th century have warned us loud and clear of the dark future ahead, and they were right. We live in that dark time now, in a prison of our own making. But it is the artists’ work to connect to the future, to feel what is coming, and – in their own humble way – to open the way for things to come.

We will have to change our way, we must turn our heads toward a brighter future. It’s time to invite the Good back into our lives, and if I, as an artist, can contribute to that, I will do my level best.

Thank you for visiting this site and looking at my art, may it help lift your spirits a bit!

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