'My art is a house with open doors. The sculptures must appeal to the spectator at first sight. That's why I use a traditional, easily recognisable, figurative form and give titles, names to the figures. In doing so the spectator is lead in a certain direction and forced to think about the sculpture. The more aspects of the figure he discovers the better he will understand the full meaning of the title.

The figures' characters are not only determined by their name, their robes also carry colourful inscriptions. They are abstract signs. I colour them with glazes and oxides on the sculpture when it is still wet, just before it is put in the oven. The signs on the back refer to the past, the life experience that the figure literally carries on its back. The front symbolizes the situation in which the figure is now and its expectations, its dreams of the future. This way the figure is complete on all sides. It's a technique that was already used in the first primitive forms of art.'

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