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“When I was five years old I saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. Through the holes in its anatomy one could see the sky. Every time I wish to attain purity I look at the sky through flesh.”
Salvador Dali (Spanish painter, 1904–1989)
Illustrations and coursebook for masterclasses in hand surgery, organised by Esser Masterclass.
Client: Esser Masterclass, department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam.
Technique: graphite pencil, Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator
© 2017 - 2020
Technique: carbon dust, graphite pencil & digital colouring
Award: World Illustration Award 2018, Research category, New Talent Winner
Various illustrations of the human skeleton:
Lumbar vertebra
Os coxae & proximal end of femur (hip joint)
Skeleton of the Human Torso
Scapula
Client: MSI Maastricht
Technique: Graphite pencil, watercolour
© 2013
Anterior Supine Intermuscular approach (ASI) .
Acetabular exposure
Hip joint (os coxae & femur)
Client: Master Thesis MSI/Dr. Stephan Vehmeijer
Laparoscopic procedure to remove an adrenal adenoma through enucleation.
Client: Dr. Hao Yan, Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing
Technique: Pencil, Adobe Photoshop
© 2016
Some steps of a PLIF surgery (Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion) for a brochure.
Client: Orthogèse
Technique: Adobe Photoshop
© 2017
Illustration of a dissection of an arm with focus on the Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex.
Client: MSI Maastricht
Technique: Watercolour
© 2016
Client: MSI Maastricht
Technique: Graphite pencil, Adobe Photoshop
© 2016
Illustrations of a surgical procedure on a rat.
Client: MSI Maastricht
Technique: Fineliner & Adobe Illustrator
© 2016
Line drawing of human torso & abdomen.
Client: MSI Maastricht
Technique: Adobe Illustrator
© 2016
“And if you should have a passion for such things, perhaps you would be impeded by disgust and if this would not hinder you, perhaps the fear to pass the night in company of such quartered and mutilated corpses that are horrifying to see; and if this does not hinder you, perhaps you would miss the capacity to draw properly which is necessary for such figuration.”
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), from "Proemio della Anatomia"