UPPER PLAYGROUND
artist, painter, spraypainter & designer
UPPER PLAYGROUND
ALL CREATIVITY IS BORN IN THE QUALITY OF PLAY
THE ART OF PLAY
THE CREATIVE POWER OF PLAY
THE FREEDOM TO CREATE WITH LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE
IN THE UPPER PLAYGROUND
SO DON’T STOP
LET’S CYCLE UP!
ABOUT ME
Having worked for years as a freelance marketeer, publicity manager and event organiser for authors and publishers, I decided a few years ago to focus more on my work as an artist.
Since then I’ve been creating almost daily. My art consists mostly of: collage art and stencil art; acrylic portraits and distorted faces; abstract paintings and abstract graff; designing and creating ‘UP-cycle pieces’.
In my collage art and stencil art I experiment with a combination of text and images, self-written slogans/lyrics/poems, eyes/noses/ears/mouths from glossies, strange images and pieces of text from magazines, leftover paint, screws and bolts, etc. I combine them with acrylic paint, spray paint, posca markers, stencils and wasco chalk.
My acrylic portraits and distorted faces on canvas. I’m painting quite a lot of portraits now-a-days. I start out with a rough sketch on the canvas using wasco pencil and then put layer over layer of acryl paint on top of each-other, sometimes using a paintknive. Until it is … finished, which it never really is. I also call them My Distorted Faces because they are a bit crazy sometimes.
For my UP-cycle pieces I give pre-used bracelets, necklaces, buttons, beads, leather bags, leather belts, etc. a new life. Often by taking them apart completely and putting them together in a very different way. So I ‘UP-cycle’ them, with a little nod to my artist name Upper Playground and my logo UP with which I sign my paintings and my other works of art.
BUYING MY ART
Some of my drawings (limited editions of litho’s), collage-art, paintings and spraypaintings are for sale via Artmajeur, see link. I sometimes sell via an art-auction at Catawiki, see link. And from time to time my art is presented and for sale at an exhibition in a gallery, see my Instagram page and home page. Same for my UP-cycled pieces: pre-used and up-cycled jewellery, bags, belts and clothes. And of course you can contact me directly if you want to buy one of my paintings or UP-cycled pieces at: upperplayground@upperplayground.nl
CONTACT ME
If you like to work together, or are interested in my art or UP-cycled pieces, please contact me – upperplayground@upperplayground.nl
