The main theme of my work is the depiction of women. The detailed painting of tissue and the quality of cloth-materials is also very important. After a foundation course in Art and drawing followed with a fashion-design course, I discovered around my 25th year 'the wonderful world of oil-paint'. Almost my whole life I had been drawing, but oil paint was a straightforward revelation. 'Love at first sight'. My prime inspirational sources for painting are the Flemish Primitives; Memling, Rogier van der Weyden and Hans Holbein. Their work is the model of perfection in painting technique, material-expression, composition and the use of color. It breathes the peace and harmony which I also want in my own work. This painting is my very first self-portrait. Painted after a difficult time in my life, still undamaged, portrayed as a bride. Oil on panel, as all my paintings. | 
