Ink drawings

Misty morning

15x10 cm, 1994

The hitchhiker

A3, 2002

Fairy love story

A3, 2003

From a bad dream

A4, 1992

Gymles

A3, 2002

De terugkeer van de roodgekroonde kraanvogel

(The return of the red crowned crane)

A3, 2016

Like a zen master

Very rarely Fenix uses ink for quick drawings. He is hooked on detailing with this medium. "Making a drawing on a sheet of A4 paper sometimes takes a whole week." He fills A3 sheets with dots and lines too: "It's really a kind of meditation. My thoughts wander while I draw, for hours and hours, I contemplate the bygone day, the world, life and the universe in general. Ink is like a zen master." Drawing in prussian blue and black with accents in scarlet has become a signature style. "I tried it once, back in 1990, for a drawing about a dream I had. It had such a mysterious promise that I kept on using these tones. The little parts of red always find their place. It simply always works out."