This panoramic watercolour artwork is a continuation of a series on internal human organs. Other artworks in this series include inanimate objects, but this artwork only includes facial features because it is essentially a portrait.

I have been inspired by other artists for a long time. First the impressionists, then the expressionists and later also the cubists.

I have chosen watercolour as a medium because it allows me to select pure pigments which then display as vibrant colours.

This is the first van den hooven artwork to feature ‘beards’ below the mouths. It uses the following pigments: turner’s yellow, cadmium red light,cobalt turqoise, cobalt green, paynes grey bluish*, naples yellow reddish, titanium grey, burnt umber, neutral tint, haematite grey, potter’s pink and Minnesota pink pipestone (catlinite).

*van den hooven has subsequently decided to remove paynes grey bluish from his palette.