Just another warm summer evening in May 2020, the corona pandemic is just 2 months old. Cees is sitting in his garden, takes a sketchbook, a pencil and a drawing pen and starts sketching. Later, a box of forgotten markers appears, a present from a former employer who is gathering dust in the attic. “I did enjoy it and we all sat at the table and my son Lars said, you have to do something with that.” Lars creates an Instagram account and then the ball starts to roll. Cees can no longer let go of the pencils and markers. “The nice thing is, I have no education at all. It arose purely spontaneously.
Sketches by artist from Amersfoort go all over the world: ‘My life has completely changed’
