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 2016
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The Realm of the Kingfisher IV
2016A Kingfisher sitting on bare tree-roots on the shore of a Swedish lake. Part of the Kingfishers-series.
Overflow
2014A floating mountain as an overflowing/abundance bestowing cup (zie ook Grail,This side up and Inside Out)
Thie Side Up
2014A floating mountain as a light-bearing calyx with lava splashing out (see also Grail, Overflow and Inside Out)
Kingfisher II
2011Near the well of the Rio Cuervo in Spain. The kingfisher is part of the landscape as well as its colourful nucleus. Part of Kingfishers-series.
Kingfisher III
2011A kingfisher dives for its prey near the the well of the Rio Cuervo in Spain. Part of Kingfishers-series.
Kingfisher I
2010The apparent chaos of bushes near the well of the Rio Cuervo in Spain, the realm of the kingfisher. Part of Kingfishers-series.
Growth
2008Root-stock under water, source of growth and development
In the beginning
2004Etching 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
Golden rain
2000Beneficient golden shower: motif from the fairy tale of Mother Carey, the rewarding of the ‘good’ sister
Mare Serenitatis
1998An assignment of the ‘Carecircle’ Waterland. The turbulent waters are appeased within the protective light-circle.
Silence
1997Watervessel On the surface carps gasp for air (see also Well and Gaia)
Grail
1997A water dish that collects and passes on light (see also Crater).
Crater
1996Representation 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
1996Duplication of the Moonfish Double impregnation (see also Moonfish)
Watercollar
1996Ornament made out of water with snake-lock
Well
1996The eternal cycle of water (see also Panta Rhei).
Panta Rhei
1995Heraclites: 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)
Water of life
1994The sweet water as a well of fertility contained in a moon-cauldron (see also Panta Rhei, Thalassa and Gaia).
Thalassa
1995The 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
1994Canoe with symbols of various cultures is being carried by water, but also is itself a carrier of water (see also Ultima Thule).
Ultima Thule
1994Vikingship run ashore at ‘the end of the world’ that carries turbulent waters (see also Homeland, where the water has appeased)
Quetzalcoatl
1993Connection 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)
Flying fish
1993Union of fish and bird (see also Swimming bird and Quetzalcoatl).
Swimming bird
1993Union of fish and bird (see also Flying fish and Quetzalcoatl).
sea/weed
1989Seaweed with a spine