[Peter Jochems]

Personally I think the blue colors are taking away too much of the qualities of the composition. I would have liked to see this piece in true colours instead of a blue painting with only the skin-tones in 'real colours'. The tonal structure of this piece could have been more interesting if the colour of your clothing hadn't been too much absorbed in the overall blueish colourscheme.

After seeing this one and more of your work, this is my impression; The handling of the paint is often very powerfull, but also very crude and messy at places. The transitions between dark and lighter areas suffer from the crudeness of the handling of the paint. I would prefer a more diverse approach. Subtle modelling at places and a bold and powerful approach at other places. That way it would gain a certain dynamic. Often it's the same energy everywhere which creates a very restless impression.

Also, I think your work would benefit from reworking certain areas more. Your paintings (the top-layer) often seem to have been painted 'in one go'. I would like to see what would happen if you would very carefully construct a composition and model it very elaborately on the canvas. Or just take things more slowly.