本次藝術展獲得了瑞典駐華領事館的全力支持，也是瑞典音樂家在北京的系列產品十藝術展。

This exhibition has received tremendous support from the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Shanghai. It’s also the series No. 10 of the "Dutch Artists in Shanghai" program.

音樂家所寫

兒時我就能用不硬的石灰巖塑像。

9歲時，我已經開始搜集礦石和水晶。我每晚都在公文包里揣幾塊小木頭，這種我就能下邊輕觸每幾塊木頭，所以即便蒙著雙眼，我也能透過木頭的花紋來介紹每幾塊木頭。

2017-Squeezed Mind

高中時光讓我意識到自己對藝術的熱愛，盡管父母希望我成為一名牙醫。我結交了一群朋友，其中一人的父親是一位著名的作家兼音樂家，他從父親那里搞來些書本，我們便在那些書本的空頁上畫草圖。

離家時，幾乎身無分文的我搬到了瑞典北方，在一個村莊里給農場主幫工。在打理完牛羊后，我選修了周六早上的藝術課程。

2015-Benenwagen

后來我在一家裝裱藝術品的店里找到了一份工作，以支付我在浮雕學院夜校的學習費用。在教授們的強烈建議下，我放棄了工作，全身心投入日常課程中。拮據的生活讓我第一學年過得很艱辛。

2012-Design Peat Thrones

2013年為讓學習成果最大化，我同時修了兩項課程：紀念性藝術和浮雕。

一年后，我獲得了一筆政府貸款，繼續學習并與妻子一起生活。我的個性手法獲得了教授們的認可，并順利地完成了這兩項課程。

我配了學校的鑰匙，所以我熱情高漲，假日無休，持續在校工作。我對課程的態度迥異于其他同學。

2010-Dragonboat

ARTIST STATEMENT

As a child I carved portraits out portraits of a soft sandstone.

1999-Structuurschets 2

High school time made me aware of my love for art although my parents wanted me to become a dentist. I joined a groups of friends who got empty unprinted books from one of the fathers who was a well-known writer and artist. We sketched onto the empty pages of those books.

1999-Cloud

After leaving this farm I moved to a very small room in the city of Groningen. There I met my wife and worked in the factorys production line and other low work.

Then I found work in an art framing shop to pay my study for the evening course at the academy of sculpture.

1997-Danseres

I did 2 studies the same time at 2013: Monumental Art and also Sculpture to gain the most from the study.

After one year I got a government loan to study and live with my wife. I continued and finished both studies successfully by taking an individual approach which was granted by the professors.

1982-Bladvorm