Born in 1959 in Deventer, Netherlands. Youngest of 5 children. My father's recordshop specialized in Old Jazz music was of large influence, as well as my mother's appetite fot Opera and my brother's abundant A to Z collection of popmusic. A mix of everything and a lot of contrast in musical taste I grew up with. But no visual art nor literature. The digital collages I made breath a mysterious atmosphere, carefully composed of self-made photo's from my collection. To this collection I add images daily with interesting colours, patterns, light, natural- or urban influences, trails of civilization; there is so much beauty around us. The plain being also a part of that.