Self-portraits with the Fujifilm XT-4
The setting of this shoot: a foggy morning on a frozen lake. A day on which I had other plans, but seeing this moody landscape, I just had to go...
The setting of this shoot: a foggy morning on a frozen lake. A day on which I had other plans, but seeing this moody landscape, I just had to go...
Perhaps spring is sneaking into my life in ways beyond my choice, but I thought it was about time to clean up my rusty knife as it wasn't even suitable...
Inspired by the beautiful song 'Riverside' by Agnes Obel, I designed this pattern. The interpretation of a song is always personal, but I wanted to capture this melody of the...
These boots have been through a lot, but I try to keep them going and I find it super fun to brush off the dirt, moisturize the leather and bring...
The snow is gone for now and although I'm definitely not ready for a new warm season, this little break filled with sunlight feeds our souls. We had up to...
Both Society6 and Redbubble are websites where visual creators can make an account to sell prints of their work. In this post, I'll be sharing my experience with both platforms...
A find from a while ago, but now trying to clean it up. If you're reading this and you have a good suggestion for me: I'm looking for a good book...
Earlier this year we started to visit movie locations of the Millenium movies, based on the books by Stieg Larsson. While I'd love to see all of them during my...
They are caught in rocks, still for millions of years while the world had changed. However small they might be, their traces can still be found. Isn't that fascinating? This pen drawing is...
Dragons in the sky! ...
I've been a rock collector for as long as I can remember. As a child, I loved taking home pretty rocks, and I never outgrew that. You might find little...
Catching a glimpse of another perspective. Flying in the air or hanging upside down on a swing. And sometimes when I'd like a different thought, I do a handstand against the...
Curiosity and the hunger to learn something new led me to leatherwork. Every little project I pick up a bit more skills and a bit more understanding of the craft...
Every single day, watching my dogs play brings me tremendous joy. It's easy to feel lighter and more joyful with them around. All with their own unique character, quirks, and...
Nature keeps surprising us in ways we couldn't even imagine and we learn, adapt, and find joy in numerous ways. Minus twenty degrees Celsius made the lakes sing and roar...
1.Greene Robert, (2012), Mastery I've been really curious lately about the concepts and theories behind mastery and their effect on our lives. Often, mastery is seen as something from long-gone times,...
Especially in these times, anything and everything is a great reason to add a bit of celebration into your life. For Valentine, I've been crafting leather hearts for dog collars...
Weekends are for making a mess in the sun, trying new things, and testing new ideas. And on these beautiful days, I've been working with leather in the energizing morning...
"So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures- while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which - if only we...
Scents and textures have a big impact on our wellbeing, more than we realize. I've always been very sensitive to smells, colors, or weird textures (I just can't eat mushrooms)...
1. /The social dilemma,Netflix 2.Kärlek och anarki, Netlfix ...
Rare days of sun enjoyed to the fullest. Feeling just enough of that light on our face to charge the clouded batteries. ...
A new year, a new cover for my IPad, chosen to inspire and fuel future creations but also as a bridge between the analog and digital world that sometimes feel...
How could I not think about this sooner? It's been ages since I last photographed the Swedish winter darkness. And dark it is. It is heavy and all around. It's...
1.Newport Cal, (2016), Deep work, rules for focused success in a distracted world, Grand central publishing. 2. Larsson Stieg, (2005), Män som hatar kvinnor, Norstedts. (Swedish version of The girl with the...
The holidays are over, the light will return but winter is only getting started. A good time to explore a fun side project like visiting some movie locations. It’s not...
So far, the most gloriously sunny day of December, with at least one minute of sunlight! :-) We squeezed this beautiful walk up the hills in between sunrise and sunset on...
Lussekatter/lussebulle/ Lucia saffron buns, Mostly eaten during the advent here in Sweden, especially on the 13th of December when Santa Lucia is celebrated. Girls in white dresses with red belts and...
I wish I could share not only a few photographs of our walk but also the soft smell of pine trees in foggy air and the sound of our boots...
1.The art of making memories. Meik Wiking ...
1. The dreamers 2.On the road 3.The science of sleep 4.Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. 5. Coraline 6. Into the wild 7. Happy go lucky 8. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 9. Lemony Snicket's A Series of...
1. All the bright places. 2. Sorjonen/Bordertown -The boys in the band. (2020, Netflix) ...
Autumn is such a special season full of opportunities, especially to explore. When the heat moves away and leaves and grasses change colors, hidden paths are suddenly revealed. When we drove...
There is something quite magical about that first snow, a hint of nature's magic falling gently from the sky. It resonates to childhood joy and the opportunity to connect new...
I hardly ever eat sugar, unless when there is something to celebrate. Since we haven't joined a party since Covid/March, this cinnamon buns day is something we just could not...
A few weeks ago, a new camera joined the pack. An unexpected mirrorless one with a bit of a vintage look that reminds me a bit of the old camera...
Opinions are loud and cheap these days and especially with COVID-19 wandering around the globe, the digital screaming tries to take over. Rather than facts and discussions, only personal opinions...
Summer, that's swimming in the lakes, eating fruit from the garden, lots of sunshine and marshmallows evenings by the fire. Of that last one, I wanted to create a quick...
Most of our summer plans fell through. Friends had their flights canceled, color codes for travel got in place and today’s world is simply not that of a summer ago....
- Verhaeghe Paul, (2015), Autoriteit, De bezige bij. -Verhaeghe Paul, (2019), Over Normaliteit en andere afwijkingen, Prometheus. - Slavoj Žižek, (2020), Pandemie- Hoe corona de wereld verandert. ...
When I learned photography, the techniques, settings, developing,...
Last week, I stood eye to eye with a young fox. Only a few weeks old. I thought that the cute creature would quickly run away but instead, it sat...
All of a sudden summer was here. Out of nowhere, it seemed after a spring dominated by snow and hail. Sometimes it felt like summer would just skip a year....
Our eyes grow square as we live through the screens- a world on fire burning holes in our brains. Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu...
- Schoeters Gaea, (2018), Zonder titel #1, Querido. - Pressing Matters - Coronavirus, the Hammer and the dance. (online article) ...
- Patrik 1,5 - The half of it. - History 101 (Netflix) - A secret love (Netflix) ...
All the plans that we had for my birthday were messed up as both a print workshop and my friends' trip to Sweden got canceled. "So, what do you want to...
It's been...
Probably my favorite line ever....
1. The marriage story (2019) 2. Unorthodox (2020) 3. Valhalla murders (2020, original version) ...
Only a few weeks ago I was still playing with the ice in that first warm sun of the new year. The movement of melting ice floating on the deep...
Body play. Looking for some upside down inside out bending and balance the other way. Eating the dust too sometimes and that’s okay ?...
It's fun, easy, cheaper than printing with plastic or copper and I really like the dirty effect + I won't be able to get new art materials any time soon...
1. Spinfluence. 2. The printmaking ideas book, Frances Stanfield and Lucy McGeown 3. Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism 4....
It's been a week since my home country, Belgium, went in lockdown. Highways are empty, schools and bars closed and people collected toilet paper for 25 years of loose motions...
- Ons creatieve brein, hoe mens en wereld elkaar maken. By Dick Swaab. (it wasn't finished yet) - Wat is een Kunstenaar/ 33 artists in 3 acts by Sarah Thornton ...
-Matthias Steiner's emotional weightlifting gold in the 2008 Beijing. -Ludovico Einaudi - "Elegy for the Arctic" - The movies that made us (Home Alone) - Pandemic (Netflix) - Freud (watched 1 episode and not...
Recently I joined an evening of model drawing at DOP platform vzw / Tekentuig - and with all chaos in the world, it feels so long ago, so far...
Drawing out loud, doodling and getting ideas quickly onto paper before they disappear (and maybe never return!) This one above is a page with sketches for 'The Happiness Factory' a series...
I love chocolate. All chocolate, I thought, until one day I took a bite of an easter egg only to discover a horrendous feeling on my tongue, going all the...
All the things I've learned to avoid as a photographer: dusty negatives, scratches, light leaks or grain,...
One concept, one sketch, 3 different end results- this is the process behind the Happiness Factory. While my dogs were quietly sleeping in the sun, the loose sketching, the thinking scribbles,...
We drove home after a sunny hike, looking for cabins in the woods. As we had finished the last sandwiches and tea, Joeri decided to take a little nap before...
1. The L-word, generation Q 2. Wallander- Brandvägg (2006) 3. The mind, explained. (Netflix) ...
Ons creatieve brein, hoe mens en wereld elkaar maken. By Dick Swaab. Maria Lassnig, Ways of being.(Dutch edition) Pressing matters magazine Suster en Wiebke ...
- I know an artist (the inspiring connections between the world's greatest artists) by Susie Hodge, illustrated by Sarah Papworth - Hockney- Van Gogh: the joy of nature by Hans den...
This year, I decided to make most of the holiday presents myself and these wooden tree decorations were one of the gifts. They are slices of birch wood, painted with...
1. Rocket man. 2. Handsome devil 3. The untold tales of Armistead Maupin 4. The secret life of pets 2 5. The Laundromat 6. Le jeu ...
First of all, a big thank you to everyone who has been supporting my work so far, either through my shop, assignments, on Society6 and even by sharing the links...
The air was crisp, the sun was out and I remember saying that it was actually the most perfect day to be outside. I made a walk after sunset but...
November treasures with the beautiful work of: GRAFIXX portfolio, skull stickers from Studio Maddy, cards and zine with drawings by Penelope Deltour, thoughtful words by Jens Meijen in 'Xenomorf', colorful and...
The world of ink and print is of unmistakable importance to my work and perhaps even my wellbeing. Big words? In a fast world, the slowness of designing, mixing ink,...
When traveling alone, some things that I might not notice otherwise, push themself to the front of the row to get attention. In this case, the loudest voices that somehow...
Life isn’t about “finding” fulfillment and success – it’s about creating it. Chase Jarvis is a photographer, co-founder of Creative Live, podcast host and much more. Most importantly he's a creator...
Something you might not know yet...
We wander, driven by a curious fire inside of us hunted by the musts and do's, escaping in a moment of oblivion. The sun was flickering playing hide and seek with light blue...
days roll by in summer heat with blue bubbles dancing towards the surface dusty clouds of conclusions evaporate as every cell is liberated ...
Tools & textures: - V-shapes gouge. - pencils, I prefer the soft and expressive ones - etching pen - palette knife - printmaking ink: water-soluble at the moment so I can work from home and...
*This book by Jan Walraven is written in Dutch and although it's probably not translated, I found it interesting enough to share here on the blog. The title could be...
a place that is all about creation about inspiration and pancakes and ink mixed with decades of memories. www.academiekontich.be ...
Immigrants, newcomers, ...