Long story short (sorry, I actually spend as little as possible at my computer and as much as possible in my studio in recent years): Architect Vittorio Simoni suggested Terhills Hotel to let me create paintings on the wall in their new meeting rooms. And so it happened. With the necessary stress, doubts, trial and error, as is usually the case with assignments with a tight deadline ;-).

In meeting room ‘Sporenzaal’, I used the entire alcove:

In situ artwork ‘Pedestal’ :

The work ‘Pedestal’ or Pedestal is an interpretation of the foot of the authentic mine shaft of Eisden. The work was realised with paint based on pigments obtained by grinding coal scraped from the surrounding slag heaps. Paint that transitions into the precious raw material mined from the underground by the miners. Coal on a pedestal, a work in tribute to the miners in the shadow of the queen shaft.

(photos by Leni Lenaerts for Terhills Hotel)