About the Artist

Biography

Based in the Maastricht region, Edwin bridges a background in chemistry with a lifelong devotion to art. As a teenager he travelled to the Rijksmuseum to see Vermeer’s Milkmaid, an encounter that shaped his enduring fascination with light, stillness and the sacred feminine. He later studied chemistry, encouraged by his parents to choose a safer path, yet continued to paint and photograph with unwavering commitment.

At the heart of his practice lies a deep fascination with the sacred feminine. For Edwin, the female body is not an object but a living icon, a place of intuition, connection and creative power. By portraying women with tenderness, strength and unapologetic presence, he seeks to honour their dignity and inner life, and to gently challenge the shame and censorship that still surround the sensual image of the female body.

His artistic practice combines Old Master craftsmanship with modern photography, gilding techniques and experimental printmaking, creating a hybrid visual language that feels both ancient and contemporary. His works have been shown at Masters Expo Amsterdam and Art Nocturne Knocke, and are held in private collections throughout Europe.

Artistic Method

Edwin’s studio functions as a laboratorio, a place where materials, ritual and emotion converge. Working in a self developed technique rooted in the Van Eyck tradition, he stretches West Flemish portrait linen over wooden panels and prepares them with twelve layers of handmade gesso before building the image in egg tempera and multiple translucent oil glazes. His background as a chemist informs every stage of the process, ensuring a stable molecular bond between the layers so that each painting is conceived to endure for centuries.

He grinds pigments by hand, works with lapis lazuli, cyanotype and palladium printing, and develops alchemical oil mediums alongside contemporary equivalents for historical pigments such as lead white and vermilion. He designs, and in some cases handcrafts, his own frames, integrating gilding and traditional finishing techniques.

Each piece is created slowly, layer by layer, inviting the viewer into a space where intimacy, silence and sacred symbolism meet.

Selected Exhibitions

2017 - Masters Expo, Amsterdam

2018 - Art Nocturne Knocke, Knokke-Heist

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Contact

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