About
Hi, I'm Ed.
I make large, colourful abstract works. Each starts with a photograph. I leave out what isn't needed, and sometimes a few changes are enough to bring what was already there to life.
I was born in The Hague in 1964 and work from my studio in Assen, in the Netherlands. I took my first photographs at eight, with my father's Agfa roll-film camera: pigeons on the Dam in Amsterdam, among other things. At sixteen I bought my first SLR and extra lenses for it.
I've never found the camera itself very important, and the technical talk around it even less. What matters is whether the photograph is interesting.
Every seven to ten years I end up doing something completely different: computer science and business, building companies, designing toys. Each time I hesitate for a while, and each time I go anyway. Looking back, none of it was wasted. Slowly, it is all coming together.
Photography is the one thing that ran underneath all of it.
From 2007 to 2013 I exhibited in galleries and other spaces. I was rarely there myself. The people who bought didn’t need me to be: they called me later, in their own time.
That is what I wanted to offer online as early as 2005: discovering the work for yourself, without walking into a gallery or having someone explain it. At the time it felt too early, so I let the idea go.
Years later, it came back.
I had never stopped making work, only more quietly. Going through the older images again, I began to see connections I hadn't seen before. New work joined them. Series started to form.
Some of the works here were made recently. Others are older pieces, retitled and placed in a new sequence. Together they are the photographic side of the work I once showed under the name Images from Within, seen more clearly.
Ed
Exhibitions, 2007–2013
A selection, shown as Images from Within.
Galleries. Kunst aan de Kade, Rotterdam · Vonkel, The Hague · De Valk, Harlingen · Lemferdinge, Eelde · Park Gallery, Hoorn · Kunsttotaal, Emmen
Elsewhere. University Medical Center Groningen · Der Aa-kerk, Groningen · Van der Valk Hotel Groningen-Zuidbroek · Pot Interieur, Axel
What I can stand behind is the work itself, made and documented to last. Every piece is produced in a limited edition or as a unique work, signed, and comes with a certificate of authenticity from the studio. Each one is printed and finished under my eye, professionally packed, and shipped to over 50 countries, backed by a clear return policy if it isn't right for you. The full detail (editions, delivery, provenance, returns) is on the Collecting page.
You buy directly from the studio. No gallery, no middleman: just the work, and me behind it. If you'd like to see a piece in more detail, want help choosing a size for your wall, or have any question before you decide, write to me. Questions are answered directly by the studio.