Barbarus

Je bent directeur van het Poëziecentrum Nederland nadat je jarenlang bezig bent geweest met het verzamelen van dichtbundels uit Nederland en Vlaanderen. Kun je iets vertellen over het ontstaan van het PcN, de lange weg die je hebt bewandeld. Hoeveel titels zijn er nu t...

Albert, je bent net met pensioen. Wat heb je gedaan tijdens je werkzame leven? Heb je nu ook de indruk dat je meer tijd hebt om dingen te doen die anders waren blijven liggen?

Ik ben vier jaar vroegtijdig gestopt met werken in het onderwijs. Ik heb op verschillende inst...

You are living in Mongolia and are an internationally well-known poet. When did you start writing? Could you tell us something about the reason and circumstances that let you start to write poems?

When I started writing poetry, it was the end of the 20th century. I was...

Foto: Riet Dolders

Je bent dichter, schrijver en fotograaf. Je dichtbundels zijn het bekendst. Opvallend is het beeldend taalgebruik. Heeft de poëzie je fotografie beïnvloed of is het juist andersom?

FB: Het schrijven zie ik los van mijn fascinatie voor fotografie. In mi...

You have had an unusual career. Can you tell us about it?

RSC:  I worked many jobs as an adult, from selling fast food to selling insurance. I was an insurance broker for over 20 years. I was not happy in any of those jobs, and always creating art as a hobby, even as...

Can you tell us about your career?

I am a professional illustrator and author of some of my books. It took me some time to find what I really wanted to do, so I did both cultural management and art studies. I graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels in...

Can you tell us about your career?

I started my professional career by illustrating children's books — schoolbooks, textbooks and picture books. Although my wish in early childhood was to become a comic book cartoonist, today I am an illustrator ... and a professor at t...

Can you tell us about your career?

I have worked as a visual development artist, concept artist, illustrator, character designer and animator in animation and game industries. Besides designing for the entertainment industry, I’ve participated in several solo and group...

Can you tell us about your career?

I was born in the city of Breda in the south of the Netherlands and grew up in an artistic environment, which influenced my creative talent. I consider myself a born artist so after studying architecture I fully dedicated myself in b...

You are an artist. How is your art style related to the themes in your work?

My style is related to the themes in my work in that I always try to create work that looks like it has been made by some natural process.  By hand with real paint or pencils etc.  Even if I so...