There are virtually no more landscapes on which man has not yet left his trace. Although on my journeys I look for untouched places, there will always be elements of man's presence. I do not consciously shut those elements out; rather I try to find those landscapes where the landscape itself is still in control.
In my landscapes you will almost never find any kind of human presence. I don't like people; I don't like people in a landscape. It will probably cause some astonishment to hear this kind of comment from a portrait painter. Yet that's the way it is. Not because I actually dislike people, but because I think a landscape should be able to be itself. I look at a landscape with the eyes of a portrait painter. A landscape is also a portrait in my eyes - a portrait with emotion, with expression in its eyes, with lines on its face.