I had an art gallery for 25 years in the city of Maastricht in The Netherlands, focussing on the tribal art, textiles and adornment from Africa, Himalaya and Southeast Asia. Currently I am dealing directly with private collectors, museums, interior designers and corporate institutions through art shows, my website and showroom in Maastricht. For more than 20 years, I have been participating in international tribal-art fairs in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, New York and San Francisco.

My personal fascination with ‘tribal art’, is its connection with animism and the realization that this art-form is strongly related to the primordial awareness of pre-historic ‘man’. That there is more between heaven and earth. Before framing this ‘idea’ in religions. Everything in nature is animated and connected. Nothing can be added. At most manipulated. A wooden sculpture or mask is already present in the tree (wood). The artist extracts it from the tree and creates a piece of artwork. Hereby showing the beauty of nature without the intention of making an imitation of a human being or a face. The artist is using the human form to express the tention in the material.

Therefore you can classify my personal preference as “archaic”, an aeshetic characterized by abstraction and reduction of the human–form to a bare minimum.

I feel privileged making a living with handling all these beautiful artworks and artefacts and see myself as an intermediary to channel them from one place or person to another. All of this with the hope that they will exist forever