My greatest challenge in coloring is to intensify the experience of a story or image. Colors appeal to the complete spectrum of emotions: from rage to happiness, from anxiety to excitement, from melancholy to joy. I like to explore the limitations and possibillities of colors and techniques to get the emotional message across.

In the mid-nineties, after graduating as an illustration major from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, I got introduced to the world of comic coloring by my former class mates, who were trying their luck as comic artists. The publishers demanded digitalized colorings, and my friends asked me to help them out. What started out as a plain filling-exercise to bring home the bacon became a passion for adding another ‘story-telling-layer’ to any kind of comics, graphic novels, or illustrations.

I preferably work with a combination of traditional materials like ecoline, watercolor and gouache combined with collage techniques and computer graphics. Flat colors are mixed in the drawings themselves.
This technique of mixing colors and materials enables me to bring any comic artist’s work to live.