Television Series

Transformations

Made from 2006 to 2008

In this period I explored the visual culture of television as a source for painting. By isolating and rearranging video stills, subtitles, and action scenes, I transform fleeting media images into concentrated paintings. In this way, the painting becomes a place where time, language, and movement are frozen and acquire new meanings.

 

 

Materials: oil on canvas

2006 - Condensed Time

In this series I take movements and actions from television images or my own video material. Using Photoshop, I combine successive video stills into a new composition, which I then translate into paint on canvas. The painting thus becomes a condensation of time: multiple moments brought together in a single pictorial plane.

Swinging Garden 90x70cm - Giant Masterplan against... 150x130 - I_Shaving 80x60 cm - Talking about Black and White 70x60cm - You with Your Beauty, You Just Knokked Me Out 100x70cm



2007 - Subtitled Realities

In this series I use video stills with subtitles taken from television. By carefully combining two to three fragments, a new whole emerges in which language and image unexpectedly reinforce or contradict one another. In this way, the painting becomes a space where meanings shift and where the subtitle plays as decisive a role as the image itself.

Een poesje 90x70cm - Geef je over 90x80cm - Lieve hemel 70x70cm - Wat scheelt er met hem 80x60cm - We kunnen er niet omheen 80x60cm



2008 - Frozen Action

In this series I paint video stills of action scenes taken from television. The result is a fixed movement: a moment of intensity captured in paint. The title refers both to the freezing of the image and to the paradox that, even in stillness, action is still present.

Implosion - Splash - The Beach - The Bride - The Forest - The Garden - The Roundabout - Allemaal: 50x40cm



2025 – Stretcher Bars and Eyelets

For the paintings still in my possession, the stretcher bars were removed. Eyelets were attached around the canvas.


2025 – Noise Preacher

In my possession I still had the oil painting Your Beauty, You Just Knocked Me Out, depicting former president George W. Bush. His words often left me speechless at the time. It couldn’t get any worse… or so I thought then.

In my studio I place canvases of 150 x 150 cm on the floor. I simply walk over them and use them during all sorts of activities. In this way, traces of transformation naturally emerge.

One of these canvases, marked by such traces, led me to the idea of noise: disturbances that obscure the transmission of communication. Today, much of that ‘noise’ is deliberately spread to sow division.

The work was given the title Noise Preacher. It can be opened so that more or less of the preacher becomes visible. The original oil painting is sewn onto the abstract canvas.