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 The Concept
What it is all about - aspects
Space and perspective have always fascinated me since I was a kid. For the Renaissance artist it meant being master of his ideas, of deciding what was to be small or big, looked down upon or being admired. It decided about the attitude to the world, his as well as the observer's.
Light is important for me as well. Its meaning stretches from the simple necessity that you cannot see without it to metaphysical connotations it has all over the world.
Manmade forms tell about man. In my works they reflect the world I have grown up in and which still makes up part of my industrial surroundings. They have been used to build something useful, railings, containers, gates, parts of various constructions or machines. They seem abandoned now, but really, you cannot tell what they are waiting for. Look, they live a life of their own! Aren't they a bit like us?
Used metal has marvelous qualities. Usually it is clear cut, fantastic for compositional purposes. But its colour and surface gives us a complex impression of various shades and tints.
Reduction to the important things in art - form and colour - without losing touch with the world outside art.
Powers of composition are fascinating: The more you do, the more you find. Movement in something as static as painting? Yes, really! The eye adds what painting cannot provide: It moves along lines, sees relations in a composition, closes gaps, sometimes is irritated by something that doesn't seem to fit . . . Always on the move.
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