Working primarily with drawing and with oil paints, rich in color, in small to mid to large scale, the general, recurring themes in my work is life and survival in the broadest sense, optimization and transience. The paintings and drawings frequently contain a subtle, violent moment which hints at something without revealing it. Everyday violence is often disguised, hidden under a beautiful form, a form of violence not so easily exposed. I am interested in humanity with all its manifestations and abysses: the relationship human to human, human to animal and human to environment. Hierarchical patterns of relationships in their various forms are thematized and reflected in my work.
Art history and contemporary art are integral parts of my practice. I am always in conversation and in relation with what was before and is co-existent to myself. Other reference points are (pop-) cultural and everyday life mundane phenomena (i. e. also looking at a landscape).
The subject matter is separated from its original context and assembled into a new reality. In the paintings and drawings something seems to be wrong either the perspective, the interaction of the protagonists or the present-like absence of something. What remains is the subject matter of the human, all too human.