Collages: My work is a result of a constant observation of my immediate surroundings - observing your subject thoroughly makes you discover that the subject is many times more interesting than the preconceived image in your mind.
Equipped with a pair of scissors and a bag full of painted sheets of paper, I enter the landscape and find myself inspired by the light, colour, the magnitude of a tree or the depth in the landscape. Forms and colours together create a representation, in which various snapshots merge into a collage of observations - particularily visible in the larger works, developed over a period of several days.
The application of the collage-technique leads to a break in the process of working. There is a moment when I mix my colours and paint the sheets of paper, and a separate moment when I take these painted sheets out of my bag and create my composition. Opposed to mixing your colours on the spot in reaction to what you observe, the sheets of paper that are now being used are not painted deliberately. And in spite of the vast array of greens, browns, ochres etc. which I bring along with me, the very colour that I need is always missing.
One could compare it to the writing of a poem with a set number of words. Working with the means I have at my disposal at that moment, forces me to come time and again to the core of what I see and leads to surprising solutions and effects in the presentation of it all.