50 x 70cm, Oil on Woodpanel, Netherlands, 2025
PEPIJN
This painting of Pepijn is about focus, intention, and a world that makes sense when it is made exactly right. He is young, yes — but his mind is steady and sharp. He likes precision. He likes meaning. He likes to understand things deeply, and to create them himself.
He is loyal, grounded, thoughtful — the kind of child who chooses his friendships with care and holds them close. He builds, collects, and crafts beauty out of found treasures — stones, ideas, patterns, and plans.
Where Siem bursts outward, Pepijn clarifies inward. His stubbornness is strength — self-trust, not resistance. In this painting I wanted to show his self-possession: a boy who does not bend to the world, but instead shapes his place within it, one thoughtful detail at a time.
FAMILY VAN DER KEMP
These set of four paintings reflects the shared spirit that lives between them:
movement, welcome, curiosity, creativity, and the simple belief that life is best lived together.
This is a home where the door is open, the music is playing, the tools are out, the food is shared, and the conversation is always real. A place where everyone is free to be entirely themselves — loud, focused, playful, thoughtful, imaginative, tender, bold.
They are energetic and flexible — the kind of family that says yes first and figures out the details with laughter and involvement. There is warmth here. Care. Growth. And a deep love that shows itself in everyday gestures — cooking, building, learning, talking, showing up.
Painting this family was special because their identity is not simply in who they are individually, but in the space they create together.
A space full of life, light, shape, color, and connection.
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