Hi!
Nice that you are interested in my world of mystic shades, funky colors, and crazy lines. I am a Dutch painter, textile artist, and upcycler.
Since 1990 I am working with paint, charcoal, and graphite.
Around the year 2000, I also started working on a computer with a pen tablet.
Since 2010, I extended my work field with textiles and applied art. The characteristics of my work are artisanal, small-scale, and neo-folklorist.
The name Pixelpolly was invented in a spontaneous mood while working on the computer with timelines, filters, and effects. (Pixel Polly is a scattering, exploding effect in Adobe After Effects).
Work has been shown at the textile museum Bussemakerhuis in Borne, the National Theater Hall in Utrecht (paintings & video walls), the Museum of resistance in Amsterdam (installation), at the Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week, and during the annual Museum Night of Rotterdam.
Want to see, feel, or try?
My upcycled denim at the BOAS denim shop.
Art in the WIHH Gallery Reguliersdwarsstraat 73 in Amsterdam (near the Mint Tower) Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 12.00 - till 18.00.
Are you interested in a work or a workshop? Feel free to send me a message.
2025
- Part of the Art Street at Het Indische Buurt Festival Amsterdam
- Market at the Freedom Rave Bosvreugd Tilburg
- Pop up shop Fashion aware club the Store Düsseldorf organised by NEONYT
- Workshops painting on canvas for companies/schools
- Workshops textile painting for companies/schools
FASHION AWARE CLUB The Store Düsseldorf
Washing instructions
The following applies to all Pixelpolly clothes: wash at 30 degrees or colder. By hand, or in a washing bag in the machine. use a delicate wash program and mild soap (wool/silk). All knitwear: dry flat.
You don't have to wash wool! Wool has the fantastic property that it cleans itself, just hanging it out overnight. (outside or in the bathroom when you shower) is sufficient. If you still want to wash it, wash cold by hand, dry flat.
You don't have to wash wool! Wool has the fantastic property that it cleans itself, just hanging it out overnight. (outside or in the bathroom when you shower) is sufficient. If you still want to wash it, wash cold by hand, dry flat.
You don't have to wash wool! Wool has the fantastic property that it cleans itself, just hanging out overnight (outside or in the bathroom when you shower) is sufficient. Still want to wash it? Wash with a wool detergent, cold by hand. Dry flat.
To prevent microplastic waste, I use the laundry bag from Guppy Friend, which can be purchased at several eco shops. Let's make this world a better place!
2023/2024
Art and fashion at the art & gift-shop NicholasG&F and at the WIHH Gallery
Creative teacher/workshops at primary schools & workshops on upcycling textile waste at secondary schools
2021/2022
My bold knits were part of the RE-IMAGINE exhibition @Kalverstraat in the center of Amsterdam, by Reshare X DSFW; the Dutch sustainable fashion week in October 2022.
Article in Ecopolitan no 4
December - EXHIBIT ONLINE - My Organic AbstraCt paintings were part of exhibit "REMINISCENT" organized by the Capital Culture House in Madrid
Creative substitute teacher @ primary schools
Workshops Trash Fashion - upcycling textile waste @ secondary schools
“We have a duty, a calling, to create, to transform the lives of other people and meanwhile try to make a living out of it that supports us living our life as an artist.”
2020
- Creative substitute teacher primary schools
- Surviving the crazy lockdown, made the Covid1984 collection
- Photoshoot for PulpdeLuxe Magazine @jobboersmaphotography
model @vivavaleriya
Article about my work in Pulp de Luxe Magazine
Vlog about the photoshoot on the streets of Amsterdam
2019
Jan - Dec - creative substitute teacher in primary schools
October - Workshop on upcycling textile waste Secondary school
July - The upcycled denim doll is part of the exhibition @KRIMPCLUB
June 23 - Upcycled vintage demo and products garden Mirror Center @ we make the city in Amsterdam
April 14 - @Othergroundmarket OT301 Amsterdam
2018
21 December MONSTER sale Rooftop Art Market Jack Amsterdam
22 + 23 September Art route Oostelijke eilanden: Open Oost!
1 + 15 September pop-up garage expo @Postjeskade Popup garage expo in my great temporary atelier @Postjeskade23 Amsterdam.
I was so happy to host Teguh Hartanto (silkscreen prints), Nissim Men (city portraits), Irene Janze (installations), Tijmen Meijer (3D interactive) & Quintus Glerum (robotic creature). Music performance by The Poofters Froth Wyoming plans ahead.
The textile sculpture was exhibited on a bed. The bed was decorated with text & drawings, accomplished by students from the St. Joost Academie Breda.
It was holding the book " Art & Lies" by Jeanette Winterson. Besides the bed, an old overhead projector was placed with the intro text from this book. It explains the alienation and the timelessness of art:
The nature of a work of art
is not to be a part, nor yet
a copy of the real world,
but a world in itself,
independent, complete, autonomous
and to possess it fully
you must enter that world,
conform to its laws,
and ignore for the time the beliefs,
aims, and particular conditions
which belongs to you
in the other world of reality.
(Oxford lectures on poetry: Professor Bradley in the year 1901)
2017
TRASH FASHION PUBLIC SPACE PERFORMANCE ARNHEM CENTRAL STATION
2017
June - workshop upcycling textile waste @ the Refugees Food Festival Final Party De Ruimte Amsterdam
7 December - Street art performance Trash fashion.
Location the futuristic station Arnhem. This event was part of the traveling exhibition FACE TIME of foundation "Kunst en Cultuur in Beweging". The theme was Identity in society. de public space performance was supported by Awearness Fashion. Our waste-culture has a devastating effect on our planet earth. The garment industry is one of the biggest polluters, its impact on our globe is disastrous. It was an interactive performance staged by Eco-nymphs dressed up in trash-fashion: garments and accessories all made of waste textiles. The intention was to give the traveler a loving but sustainable message with sweet music, hand kisses, perfume, and eco-glitter. Warning: this show is not visible for those who don't believe in fairy tales!
Before the performance. The preparations.
16 & 17 September - VRIJPLAATS FESTIVAL Former Bijlmer Bajes Amsterdam 2 days full of art, music & performances (VIDEO)
July 16th- Teleport art event 3rd edition @Amsterdam
June 17th - Benchcollective @Hoodstock behind bars
June 10th - Urban culture days @Broedplaats Lely Amsterdam
BEFORE
2016 Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week Circular Fashion Show
Amsterdam Maker Festival - Marineterrein Amsterdam
2015 textile route organized by the Textile Museum Bussemakerhuis
2014 Exhibition British Airways VIP Lounge Schiphol
2013 Annual Museum Night Rotterdam
2011 Art @ the Schellens Fabriek Eindhoven
Art Lease by Artolive
COMMISSIONS
2017 - Trash fashion performance Central station Arnhem
2004 - Illustrations Big Grandpa & Grandma Storybook
ISBN 90-808875-1-X
2004 - Decoration children's disco theater days Utrecht
2003 - Installation exhibition "Feest" Museum of Resistance A'dam
2001 - Allocation grant WIK (Wet Inkomen Kunstenaars)
2001 - Concept design children's store Villa Happ
illustration childrens book circus bello
EDUCATION
1991 - Masterclass by the American photorealist Ted Seth Jacobs at Ecole Albert Defois - Les Cerqueux sous Passavant France
1989 - Social Science University Utrecht
1986 - Graduated 'HTS Voor de Confectie Industrie' Amsterdam
illustration for children book scary basement
