A surreal, typical Dutch, winter landscape, with people skating on natural ice. Mixed media and assembly on paper. My collages are built with all kinds of photos, pictures and images that I have collected over the years. As the first I paint a surface with watercolor or acrylic paint. The collage is then applied in layers and sometimes pulled loose again to create an old and weathered effect. By applying the layers over each other, a transparent effect is created, as is only possible with watercolor paint. The first layers are visible through the collage layers. Most collages are worked with acrylic paint, in the form of stamping or simply painted over. In addition, I often use a ballpoint pen or pencil to draw on the collages.