“Aimless Drifting and the Ripples of a Passing Tadpole” at Stadhuis Amersfoort

My new drawing has been printed on a huge canvas and is now on show at the town hall in Amersfoort until the end of January 2026.

In 2024, the municipality of Amersfoort launched the “Art at City Hall” project, in which four artists each year depict a theme with a window artwork. In 2025, the theme is water. Curator Judith van Meeuwen selected four artists from Amersfoort and the surrounding area for this project. My work is about ‘water and leisure’ and the final display for this year.

In our daily lives, we often work under pressure. We want to achieve goals and check off to do lists. We do this in nature too: we count birds, walk a certain number of kilometers, or climb a mountain. But in our free time, we also have the opportunity to let go of those goals. We can simply be in nature and forget for a moment where we came from and where we’re going. Just like a babbling brook. My work “Aimless Drifting and the Ripples of a Passing Tadpole” is about this different way of being in nature.

Marjolein Sponselee wrote a piece about my work for Lucy in de Lucht (in Dutch). You can read it here

Photo Judith van Meeuwen

detail, photo Robin Speijer