Water

Etchings with ´Water´ as a main theme. All etching are printed by hand with a maximum of 50 issues on 300 gram hand-made acid-free etching paper.

dated 1989 until 2011, comment to the artist (click on an image to enlarge an artwork)

  • Near the well of the Rio Cuervo in Spain. The kingfisher is part of the landscape as well as its colourful nucleus. Part of Kingfishers-triptych.

  • A kingfisher dives for its prey near the the well of the Rio Cuervo in Spain. Part of Kingfishers-triptych.

  • The apparent chaos of bushes near the well of the Rio Cuervo in Spain, the realm of the kingfisher. Part of Kingfishers-triptych.

  • Growth

    2008

    Root-stock under water, source of growth and development

  • Etching based on a poem by Dutch poet Ida Gerhardt who compares the creation of her poems with a shell-fish creating its own shell, breathing in- and out in the deep ocean waters

  • Beneficient golden shower: motif from the fairy tale of Mother Carey, the rewarding of the ‘good’ sister

  • An assignment of the ‘Carecircle’ Waterland. The turbulent waters are appeased within the protective light-circle.

  • Silence

    1997

    Watervessel On the surface carps gasp for air (see also Well and Gaia)

  • Grail

    1997

    A water dish that collects and passes on light (see also Crater).

  • Crater

    1996

    Representation of the origin of the Conveyor Belt, the cold gulf-stream that flows through the deep-sea and in a way forms the blood circulation of the earth (see also Grail).

  • Twin moon

    1996

    Duplication of the Moonfish Double impregnation (see also Moonfish)

  • Ornament made out of water with snake-lock

  • Well

    1996

    The eternal cycle of water (see also Panta Rhei).

  • Panta Rhei

    1995

    Heraclites: Everything flows, everything is always changing, the essence of life A coherent wave as a ‘world-egg’ (see also Thalassa, Water of life and Well)

  • The sweet water as a well of fertility contained in a moon-cauldron (see also Panta Rhei, Thalassa and Gaia).

  • Thalassa

    1995

    The ever changing element, in this case the sea, contained in a man-made cauldron adorned with dolphins (see also Panta Rhei, Water of life and Well).

  • Homeland

    1994

    Canoe with symbols of various cultures is being carried by water, but also is itself a carrier of water (see also Ultima Thule).

  • Vikingship run ashore at ‘the end of the world’ that carries turbulent waters (see also Homeland, where the water has appeased)

  • Connection of snake, fish and bird My interpretation of the old Toltec/Mayan/Aztec god Quetzalcoatl Beneath it two Eskimo-masks in which fish/bird and animal or man are combined (see also Flying fish and Swimming bird)

  • Union of fish and bird (see also Swimming bird and Quetzalcoatl).

  • Union of fish and bird (see also Flying fish and Quetzalcoatl).

  • sea/weed

    1989

    Seaweed with a spine