Bird collage by Artstudio1622

This collage mixed media project is based on the oldest dutch written sentence "Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan hinase hic anda thu". It means "All the birds have made a nest, except for you and me". I started with acryl on canvas and gel medium tranfers. After that I painted the birds and made a photo. Followed by the finishing touch in photoshop.

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Because of the fact that my mother is an artist, I grew up as a regular visitor of museums and other art exhibitions.

At the age of twenty I started taking pictures, mostly with architecture as subject and with a preference for the color blue. I took several trainings and developed over the years to a more allround photographer. My pictures were published in the book "Focus Passages: The Doors."


I love to work in series. And though I didn't mean to, I discovered that I was inspired by the same subjects as my mother. She has a series called ?the wall of my life?; my answer to that is ?the life in my wall?. We share a special interest for stones and things that are a bit grungy, weathered or just not "plastic fantastic".


More recently I started to combine painting and photography. I love the multilayered pieces this combination provides. I start with a concept and start to mix up the different media to make the art piece.

As a photographer I shoot landscapes and daily subjects as my pictures serve designers, bloggers and editors at big microstock agents like Shutterstock, Dreamstime, iStockphoto, Fotolia and de Nationale Beeldbank. But I still love to shoot architecture.

Although being an artist is an important part of my daily life, there is more to know about me. I was born (1971) and raised in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I went to the Erasmus University and became a health scientist. I practised as such for a long time, partly neglect

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