SERIES
The works shown here represent only a portion of my practice. Older pieces and most commissioned projects are not included. My newest paintings from 2025 are not yet online. I find it hard to make time for this part of the atelier, I always find an excuse to just paint. A major update is planned for december, when many recent works from a new series will be added. Please contact us if you have questions about artworks or want a sneak preview of upcoming works: info@atelierwerkman.com
Fragility
This series explores the quiet shifts that mark being alive. The way something vulnerable can still hold its ground.
Each work moves close to the edge of form.
Nothing is fixed, but everything matters.
This is about the fragility of bodies, of thoughts, of connection.
A reminder that to live is to be exposed, and that’s where meaning lives.
Little oceans
A collection of small works with wide horizons
There is movement here, sometimes still like a ripple, sometimes rising like a wave
You look, you feel, floating in something you don’t need to understand to experience
Seas and oceans return again and again in my work, along with the creatures that live within them
It is the feeling you get standing on the shore, looking out at something so vast it slips past thought
I love Murakami
Inspired by the worlds of Haruki Murakami,
where the everyday meets the surreal without apology
These works play with meaning, confusion, and recognition.
Layered, and a little off, like waking from a dream and not being sure if you have really left it.
During times when I painted little or not at all, books were my refuge. Reading let me slip into other worlds, inhabit other lives.
Creatures
I’ve lived with animals most of my life
It started with a dog, then a rabbit I still have nightmares about
Then came the cats
Now there’s another dog
These creatures live beside us, around us, inside us
Each piece in this series feels like a quiet meeting
Shapes with presence
Figures that are almost something
They seem to breathe, to shift, to watch or to wait
