With my art I want to make people think about important and relevant issues in society. In the past I painted only things I thought of as beautiful, but as you grow and mature, personally and as an artist, you start to look at things differently; you start to look beyond the surface. Life is not only about pleasant and beautiful things. For many years I have thus focused on human nature and its effect on society as a whole.

Subjects such as war, greed, self-centered personal gratification, man’s hunger for power, poverty and abuse were until recently the main theme in my art. Those works were mostly dark, done in charcoal, pencils and acrylic paint in primarily black and grey hues, combined with collage techniques. My subjects were either dark, indistinct silhouettes or pictures of people, often children, with strong emotional expressions.

Sometimes I add words and certain symbolisms to elaborate on the theme. Important in almost every composition is a bright white mass which seems to emit an ominous threat or source of evil. It is often portrayed as radiating from the bottom of the work up towards the subject, implying in many cases a negative energy emanating from a source of evil…. and evil can come from many sources and the direction may vary. In most cases the cause of misery and evil is mankind itself and regrettably too often, the victims are the innocent, especially children. In that regard my work deals with the sadness, the fear, the abuse and the violence that often lurk beneath the surface, but are undeniably a part of many people’s lives in this day and age.

Working experience:
2016 - Now Head of the Nola Hatterman Art Academy, Suriname
2014 1 Month Residency at Glo'Art in Lanaken, Belgium
2010 - 2011 Traveled to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy as Supervisor with two students for the occasion of the end presentation of final year students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy
2009 Three month internship at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, The Netherlands
2000 - Now Teacher at Nola Hatterman Art Academy, Suriname
Previously Art teacher at several secondary schools


Exhibitions:
2017 TNF of December "Special Gift Edition", Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname
2017 TNF of November "Frightly", Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname
2017 TNF of May "Open House", Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname
2015 TNF of December "Sunil Puljhun", Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname
2015 Opening exhibition new location Readytex Art Gallery, Paramaribo, Suriname
2014 National Art Fair, Paramaribo, Suriname
2014 Circus Terminal, international traveling exhibition, De Hal, Suriname
2014 WAT, RAG group exhibition, De Hal, Paramaribo, Suriname
2013 Cultural Currents, Miami meets Paramaribo, De Hal, Paramaribo, Suriname
2013 Exhibition 20 years Readytex Art Gallery, De Hal, Paramaribo, Suriname
2012 Heritage Festival, Fort Nw. Amsterdam, Commewijne, Suriname
2012 Revealing our stored treasures, RAG in De Hal, Suriname
2011 Solo exhibition "The weight of darkness", RAG in De Hal, Paramaribo, Suriname
2011 De Verleiding van Coronie, The Hague, Holland