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His lifelong exploration of self through yoga and meditation, as well as the introduction to mindfulness through the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn in the early ‘90’s, was instrumental in expanding his early love for Rembrandt, Hals, Manet and Degas to the artists Pierre Bonnard, Nicolas de Staël, Henri Matisse, Wolf Kahn and Joan Mitchell.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dark-sunrise-on-the-boschwetering","title":"Dark sunrise on the Boschwetering","description":"\u003cp\u003eOil on Canvas \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e33.6\" x 59\" in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e85 x 150 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"artwork-description__description body--m\"\u003eBetween April and November my partner and I spend every weekend at our “caravan” in the middle of a nature preserve in the heart of Holland. 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Later the same evening I made many drawings to find the essence of what I had felt at the moment I made the photo. Back in my Amsterdam studio I went to work on the painting. I had fun moving big areas of color around the canvas as the visual poetry began to distill itself \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"artwork-description__description artwork-description__description--more body--m\"\u003einto the direct, emotional expression I was searching for. 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