At 70, I started painting again. I seem to be 
able to sign my work only with my names given at birth: Goverdina Maria. In my work I try to express the essential of what I see and of what touches me. I like bright colours, perhaps that’s why I call myself an ‘expressive essentialist’.
Enrich your home with unique art
The paintings below are available, frame included, and of course they come with a signed Certificate of Authenticity (CoA). These pages are in English because of my international friends and clients. You’re most welcome. These painting are available:
Resist or escape 2026
Peace & Threat 2026
White cottage 2026
Portrait of a man (in red) 2026
Red Cottage 2026
Misty 2026
Mimi 2026
Portrait of a young woman 2025
Beauty of evil 2025
Flower still life in dark blue vase 2025
Montagne Sainte-Victoire 2025
Avocado 2025
Hay rolls in Normandy 2025
Still life with blue teapot etc. 2025
Still awake 2025
War Child Gaza / Oorlogskind Gaza 2024
Abstract with eye 2024
Françoise’s vase with daisies 2024
On the edge – Langs de rand 2024
Corn field under a blue moon 2024
Different girl, different pearl 2024
Leporello 2024
Blauwe vrouw – Blue woman 2024
Kustlijnen – Coastlines 2024
Flowers in a pot and lanterns 2023
World on Fire 2023
Weeping Sunflower 2023
Hope in dark days 2022
Explosion 2021
Nefertiti’s dream (looted art) 2021
Earthen pitcher with fruits 2021
Me. Unfinished. 2021
Still life with pots & bottle 2020
Learning from Cézanne 2020
After the party 1994
Lunchtime 1994
Apple, lemon & buoy 1994
– Prices include shipping within The Netherlands.
No longer available (now in private collections)
Annechien 2025 ●
Yellow vase with red flowers 2025 ●
A little more courage 2025 ●
There’s always a light 2025 ●
Cold track 2025 ●
Sailing Home 2025 ●
Socrates 2023 ●
Shepherd’s Warning 2022 ●
Durdle Door 1 & 2 2022 ●
Sunset 2024 ●
Evening mountains / Avondbergen 2025 ●
Starlings in winter 2024 ●
Barn in winter 2021 ●
What we see 2021 ●
The little red church 2021 ●
Stabat Mater 2021 ●
Losing my twin brother 2020 ●
Storm arriving in Les Baux de Breteuil, Normandy 2020 ●
Poppies in Flanders Fields 2020 ●
Still life with pots & apple in black & white 2020
Still life with pots & apple in basic coulours 2020 ●
Party table – abstract 1995 ●
Small sailing boat 1994 ●
Man & woman talking 1994 ●
Vincent 1994 ●
Learning from Van Gogh 1966 ●
● = niet meer beschikbaar / not available.