Expressive.

Bold.

Concept-driven.

I paint the ghost behind the image — in radiant color and fractured light. Faces you may know — until the surface cracks. Icons. Antiheroes. Outsiders. Legends with edges.

My materials don’t whisper. They shine, scrape, distort. Acrylic, charcoal, gloss and metallics aren’t just tools — they’re part of the story. What you see depends on where you stand. And that’s the point.

I started painting in 2024. Late? Maybe. But also: exactly on time. Primarily self-taught — not by necessity, but by conviction. I see the studio as a space for ongoing research, where visual language evolves through practice, intuition, and friction. My background in cultural and linguistic studies, combined with years of working in marketing and living in the Middle East and Africa, shapes how I read and construct images — not just as pictures, but as layered stories open to reinterpretation.

My work reframes what culture mythologizes — and what it prefers to forget. These portraits don’t flatter. They glare back.

Sander van golberdinge

A man standing in front of two abstract portrait paintings at an art gallery, wearing glasses, a light-colored shirt over a black T-shirt, jeans, and a watch.