I am a Dutch artist, born in 1984, living and working in Noordwijk, also known as Amsterdam Beach. My work moves between personal history and collective memory, between body and system, between what is visible and what has long remained unspoken.

For many years, I worked primarily with the human figure, developing a bold and expressive visual language using large brushes and Indian ink. The uncompromising nature of ink, once applied irreversible, became central to my practice. It demands trust, presence and surrender. Over time, this physical way of working evolved into something deeper: a search for what lies beneath the surface of an image.

Motherhood profoundly shaped that shift. Becoming a mother heightened my awareness of vulnerability, responsibility and continuity. It also confronted me with my own physical limits. At moments when my body seemed to restrict what was possible, I was forced to make conscious choices about how I wanted to live and work. Choosing not to be led by fear, but by attention and care, became a guiding principle, both in life and in art.

Those experiences sharpened my sensitivity to what is carried forward, not only biologically, but emotionally and historically. The presence of children in my work is not symbolic. It emerges from lived experience and from the realization that every generation inherits more than it chooses.

In recent years, my practice turned toward an investigation of my Indo Dutch Indonesian roots. Triggered by a personal experience within my own family, I began researching archival documents, colonial histories and family records. What started as a private search grew into an artistic exploration of transgenerational memory, the way experiences travel through generations, settle in the body and continue to shape identity.

Through expressive portraits and the use of charcoal, Indian ink, bistre, cyanotype and layered materials, I explore themes of inheritance, displacement, resilience and silence. Many of the works focus on children, not as symbols of fragility, but as carriers of history and possibility.

In 2026, I present this body of work in a solo exhibition, marking a new chapter in my practice. For this exhibition, I work under the name Eva Margaretha, a reference to my maternal lineage and to an Indonesian ancestor whose story was barely recorded. The name stands for the many voices that history has overlooked, yet that continue to resonate.

My work is intuitive and physical, yet rooted in research. It balances strength and vulnerability, control and surrender. I do not aim to illustrate history, but to create space for reflection and to look at the past without being confined by it.

Art, for me, is not about answers. It is about attention.