Biography

biography

1975

First stick figures

First stick figures:<ul><li>dancing figure</li><li>horse rider</li><li>vaudeville dancer</li><li>pointing figure</li><li>petanque player</li></ul>

Starts drawing stick figures.

Materials: mostly ballpoint pen on drawing paper (later: notepad paper).
Final version: Indian ink on drawing paper or ivory cardboard.

1976

Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich: First encounter with the work of modern abstract painters, in particular Mondrian, Kandinsky and Malevich.

1979

Theory of art: Reads Kandinsky's Point and line to plane.

1980

Amsterdam: Moves to Amsterdam.

19852012

Human figures (iii): Human figures (iii)

1989

Malevich exhibition: Visits exhibition Malevich 1878 - 1935 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

1994

CorelDraw: Abandons Indian ink and switches to CorelDraw.
Continues using ballpoint pen for sketching purposes.

Mondrian exhibition: Visits exhibition Piet Mondriaan: 1872-1944 at the Gemeentelijk Museum in The Hague.

19942012

Human figures (i): Human figures (i)

1996

Figure generator: Uses a self-developed figure generator program - nicknamed Stick Figure Factory - to arrive at a comprehensive collection of artistically interesting straight lined figures and make up for any blind spots he may have developed. Selects the most promising figures and works them out by hand, as always starting out with ballpoint pen on notepad paper and using CorelDraw for the final version.

19992012

Human figures (ii): Human figures (ii)

200420122019

Starts working on a series called Rotations, inspired by the work of Eadweard Muybridge.

2005

Mosaics: Experiments with (web based) mosaics, using JavaScript and randomly selected jpg images.

20082012

Moving figures: Starts experimenting with moving figures, using scalable vector graphics and Flash.

20122014

Stick figure factory: Stick figure factory

20142016

Ripples: Ripples

2017

Perpendicular lines: Perpendicular lines

2018

Figure generator: Develops HTML5-based figure generators as a basis for Horizons and trees and T-junctions.

Horizons and trees

T-junctions: T-junctions

2019

Rotations: Revises and expands Rotations

Scrum: Scrum

2020

Horizontal and vertical lines

Horizontal lines.

Vertical lines.

Signatures: Signatures.

Entangled lines: Entangled lines.

20212022

Roots / branches: Roots / branches.

Twigs: Twigs.

Multiple ripples

2 ripples, 2 lines.

2 ripples, 3 lines.

2022

Flames / reflections: Flames / reflections.

Still lifes

Still lifes ii.

20222023

Wandering lines

5 thru 7 segments.

8 thru 10 segments.

11 thru 12 segments.

20232024

Pavements: Pavements.

2024

Stick figure factory: Updates and expands Stick figure factory.