My works are often described as “intuitive architecting” or “utopian architecting”. Perhaps “architectural fantasies” would also be appropriate for my sculptures (3D shelters) and paintings. In my 3D shelters, I mainly use driftwood, which has acquired its lightness and weathered colours through the action of water and wind. I use this driftwood to bring whimsical living forms to life. The wood as a living material is subjected to time, water and wind, but still finds a place of attachment. It continues its fragile life on a polished ship’s hull or on crumbling rocks. It does not assume static forms, but stretches its branches out again, forming spaces and volumes, shelters for life. Every shelter is different and unique, it lives and survives. It offers protection to those who seek their way in its surprising structures, in its organically grown space. One example is the artist himself, both carried by the water and finding protection in his living shelter The Artist’s Ark.
My 2D-shelters are painted on old painter’s boards that were scraped clean and upon which I then paint feather-light houses. The houses float high above the world; they are not anchored to fixed structures but fly on the wings of imagination. They offer shelter and provide a view on the lightness of existence. They play with architectural elements, love balance and large windows with a view on the blue sky and everything that happens in it and around it. Somewhere between imagination and reality, between dream and reality.
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