Born in Amsterdam 1943, left school when he was 12, and became autodidact while travelling around the world. At the age of 20, he became a photographer. At 30, he met Joost Elffers an produced several books with him on art, architecture and games, including two major art exhibitions (anamorphic art in the Rijks Museum and Fantastic architecture in the Stedelijk Museum).  At 40, he met Edward James, Niki de Saint Phalle and Tinguely and for 4 years, lived and worked with Niki.  When he met Ada Breedveld in 1998, she encouraged him to exhibit his objects From that time on, his work has been showed in Holland, USA and France.  He is fascinated by wind, movements, lights and rusted iron. The objects are mostly mobiles , lamps, paintings made with pigments, acrylics or rust and photographs of faces and movements for that he uses and creates rusted iron often covered partly with gold or silver leaves, stones shaped by nature and pigments from India and the Luberon. The lamps are made with rusted iron, Japanese paper or resin painted with acrylics. At the moment, he lives in the south of France at Mount Athos with 4 angels.