Trees and science: Around 1920 Bea Schwarz discovered the cause of the elm disease. For that reason her name is given to a newly developed elm variety, which is hopefully more resistant to this disease. Many of these are planted at the north of the Sloterplas in Amsterdam.
Trees for the soul: there are two monumental trees on the small square in the Oudemanhuispoort, the former home of the Amsterdam Law School. They're witnesses of more than 100 years university life. The faculty left for a their new home at the Roeterseiland. On commission I made a diptych of the old place, seen from the 1st floor and the ground floor respectively. As a memorie of the old place it is now on the 8th floor of the new faculty's home.
A royal tree: at the occasion of the birth of princess Beatrix back in 1938, a plane tree was planted in a small town, as is the case in several other places all over the country. Nowadays the tree has grown quite a lot. A majestic tree. She seems to wear a shiny skirt and yet she is a human of flesh and blood, although... the queen has no legs.
And the beginning of a new project: Amsterdam 3hoog achter....
OMHP - Oudemanhuispoort | diptych | 190 × 170 en 190 × 250 cm | charcoal and pastel on pastelgrounded canvas | swipe to see the work on its defintive location
2020 | White horse chestnut seen from home. One of the first pastels made during the first covid lockdown. See the project Amsterdam 3hoog achter.
2020 | Oaks at the Hasselerhof (Ommen)
Tribute to Bea Schwarz (left), researcher who discovered the cause of the elm disease. On the foreground the grafted elm tree named after her. On the right the supervisor of the research project Johanna Westerdijk, the first female professor at a university in the Netherlands. | ∅ 40 cm | 2019
2020 | Curly willow in Ommen
2020 | Overijsselse Vecht near hotel Mooirivier
Apples on a tree | 2019 | cover design for Het menselijke kwaad by Klaas Rozemond | private collection
Beech in Dalfsen | charcoao/pastel on prepared paper | ∅ 40 cm | 2019
Trees and science: Around 1920 Bea Schwarz discovered the cause of the elm disease. For that reason her name is given to a newly developed elm variety, which is hopefully more resistant to this disease. Many of these are planted at the north of the Sloterplas in Amsterdam.
Trees for the soul: there are two monumental trees on the small square in the Oudemanhuispoort, the former home of the Amsterdam Law School. They're witnesses of more than 100 years university life. The faculty left for a their new home at the Roeterseiland. On commission I made a diptych of the old place, seen from the 1st floor and the ground floor respectively. As a memorie of the old place it is now on the 8th floor of the new faculty's home.
A royal tree: at the occasion of the birth of princess Beatrix back in 1938, a plane tree was planted in a small town, as is the case in several other places all over the country. Nowadays the tree has grown quite a lot. A majestic tree. She seems to wear a shiny skirt and yet she is a human of flesh and blood, although... the queen has no legs.
And the beginning of a new project: Amsterdam 3hoog achter....
OMHP - Oudemanhuispoort | diptych | 190 × 170 en 190 × 250 cm | charcoal and pastel on pastelgrounded canvas | swipe to see the work on its defintive location
2020 | White horse chestnut seen from home. One of the first pastels made during the first covid lockdown. See the project Amsterdam 3hoog achter.
2020 | Oaks at the Hasselerhof (Ommen)
2020 | Curly willow in Ommen
2020 | Overijsselse Vecht near hotel Mooirivier
Beech in Dalfsen | charcoao/pastel on prepared paper | ∅ 40 cm | 2019
Tribute to Bea Schwarz (left), researcher who discovered the cause of the elm disease. On the foreground the grafted elm tree named after her. On the right the supervisor of the research project Johanna Westerdijk, the first female professor at a university in the Netherlands. | ∅ 40 cm | 2019
Apples on a tree | 2019 | cover design for Het menselijke kwaad by Klaas Rozemond | private collection
