After the Corona crisis I started to make more portraits of people I met in the streets of Den Haag. They would stand out to me because of certain features they showed or memories they brought back to me. This is the same principle I used in my series Brief Encounters during The Corona pandemic. For this series I walked to the Malieveld in Den Haag taking different routes and at the Malieveld I described the people I met in text. Coming home I would paint a small portrait in oilpaint on A4 format stone paper. These portraits and texts were consequently published on Instagram ( #malieveldinvites ). Here you can find the whole project. I did not end it yet, so I will update regularly.

The Day Started Grey

You Guys Are not Going to Throw Stones Are You?

This Is Ideal, You Have a Good Point There!

People Can Be So Big These Days…

It’s Not His Day!

And Then I Say: I Really Want That!

Inti Baladi …

Which Honour Does He Still Defend?

Girls Who Also Seemed to Come From Elsewhere

It Hardly Seems to Help

“You go, you go!”

I Imagine That They Speak Franch Inside

A Slavic Hippie

The Back of Eachothers Head

Seemingly Unaffected and in Trance

A Sudden Wave of Melancholy

It Seems that They Are About to Dissolve

People Don’t Trust it Yet

He Made a Comment about Social Coercion

Do You Have Money, Food or Refuge for Me?

What Would He See Inside of Himself?

The Measurements of a Sumo Wrestler

Standing Before a Blood-shed moon

Gravitas in Den Haag

Opposite a Black Monolith

A Smoke Break on the Way to Somewhere Else

Her Pain is Elsewhere

A Poorly Kneaded Lump of Meat Caught in a Green-White Bal

A seagull Screams Above Us

The Boy Catches Full Daylight

The Whole Scene Gives Me a Peaceful Feeling