Together on Wheels

Kasper, Laila, Moos en Atlas

vanSVane – Acrylic on canvas 50×70 – Portugal 2022

Our youngest son Atlas was born on 11-05-2020 in the house of my mother. Our own home at that time was a caravan on a campsite in Hilversum. We looked very much forward to go there after the birth.

On the night of 12-05-2020, the day after Atlas was born, we received a phone call from the police, they told us that this home was on fire.

The next morning I went to the campsite. There was really noting left of our caravan and all our belongings. Walking around over this black crust I found only one thing that had survived the fire, a children-book, a very colorful version of the bible.

vanSVane – Acrylic on canvas 50×70 – Spain 2021

The ‘Danse Macabre’ has been a classical topic for artists at least since the Dark-Ages in Europe. We painted our version of the Danse Macabre during recent corona times. We could feel the fear of being mortal (or getting sick) more then ever in the world around us. Making this painting was a way for us to express what we felt and noticed during this time, but also our ‘answer’ to our own fears.

The Danse Macabre celebrates death as a part of life. It shows that we can and maybe even should dance with death to really live.

We have a tendency to look at numbers: money, time, statistics. But life can not be caught in numbers. Life is life and everywhere around us. The birth of a child not more miraculous then seeds growing on a flower.

A drawing I made for a friend. I call it, “in her circle”.

In a old factory in Hilversum in the Netherlands, we had our exposition of vanSVane ART and Together on Wheels. Our paintings is about our lives and our life on the road.

Our second son, in freedom and abundance, born out of love. “Atlas” came till live during this painting.

The strength and miracle I feel to be pregnant and give birth. I feel blessed to be a woman who can experience this wonder.

SPAIN December 2019 – A friend of us asked if we could make a painting in his house. Surrounded by olive trees and hop birds it makes it easy what to make 🙂

September 2019 – Fabrique Ludique Hilversum. We organized a festival in the place we have our workshop. Festival Waanzin (Madness in English). Together with my friend Gea Muijs, we found a lot of artist who joined us to exhibited there art. Two days of theatre, music and art about the madness of people and society.

In Holland we look at tomorrow. Always something new. Something beautiful, something nice, something that is better. But what if the leafs of the tree start falling?