Coming to China has always been a dream of mine. Already as a child I was fascinated by the country. The reason for that is perhaps that here the magic that I look for in my paintings seems to be more alive. And nature in China is still mostly wild and untamed. The fulfillment of the dream to come to China was postponed for some years, because I was allowed to fulfill another dream first, i.e. studying at an Art Academy. But after I graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, the Netherlands, there was no stopping me from going on my adventure. To China and beyond, because instead of just taking a plane from the Netherlands I took an older and far more interesting way, i.e. the Trans-Siberian Railway, all the way from Moscow to Beijing. As a consequence, a lot of the art you see here is inspired both by what I saw on that trip and by what I saw in China. It was mostly the nature of this places that inspired me.