Karavanserai: My house, a beautiful apartment and studio on the Entrepotdok in the centre of Amsterdam, has almost become a campsite for artists. Creative souls flock from all four corners of the globe: Aruba, Colombia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Mali, Egypt, North and South America, Spain, and many other countries.

I have loved and lived with many types of people, but I feel most at home with artists.
Artists do not live in reality, they create and shape their own worlds out of nothing. When we meet, something magical happens, and one plus one equals three.
I like to allow these two fantasies to flow together and see what happens. However, it's not easy, as fantasies remain intangible unless converted into something visible or audible.

My portraits are brief symbioses of two imaginary worlds with me as the hostess.
They represent meetings with fellow artists. I see the artist in a particular light and they then reveal to me who they truly are. Together, we arrive at a single image.
This method suits my way of working down to the ground. It demands a great deal from my models, and the process is very intensive. The models are photographed in fine detail using a scanner, which requires them to lie on the glass plate. Light and features are then added and everything is done upside down and in mirror image.
The portrait therefore depicts more than just a model, it depicts the person's soul and life story.
How much influence the person has on the end result is unpredictable, and some subjects have more influence than others.
The final picture is therefore always a surprise.
I began to develop the idea last year, and I would like to keep working on it for the foreseeable future.
Lieve Prins