These three works were created in Aruba and are currently available. Each painting measures 100 × 160 cm.

Green Eyed

Created in Aruba

Green Eyed is dominated by a striking green figure whose enormous eye immediately commands attention. Around it, fish, faces, buildings and flowing lines overlap in a restless world filled with movement and colour.

The title plays with the idea of the “green-eyed monster”—jealousy and envy. The figure appears to look toward what others possess, while the many eyes scattered throughout the painting create the feeling that everyone is watching, comparing and wanting.

Beneath the surface, the work reflects a very human tendency: to measure our own lives against the lives of others. In a place often presented as paradise, appearances can make it easy to believe that everyone else has more.

Yet what we see from the outside rarely tells the whole story.

When we are always looking at what others have, do we still see what is already in front of us?

Green Eyed turns jealousy into something colourful, playful and slightly unsettling—a reminder that comparison can change the way we see our own world.

Open Claw

Created in Aruba

Open Claw places an enormous white lobster at the centre of a world filled with fish, symbols, pathways and fragments of island life. Its open claws dominate the canvas, almost as if the animal is reaching beyond the world around it.

The lobster is surrounded by signs of both nature and human presence. Water, land, buildings and graphic symbols overlap, creating a landscape where different worlds exist side by side.

Its exaggerated scale transforms a familiar Caribbean creature into something monumental. What would normally be caught, consumed or overlooked suddenly becomes impossible to ignore.

Who is reaching for whom—and what are we trying to hold on to?

Open Claw invites the viewer to move between the whole image and its smallest details, discovering new connections each time.

Bibo den Kaya

Created in Aruba

At the centre of Bibo den Kaya hangs an enormous marlin, caught for tourists while local people are left watching.

Behind this scene lies a wider story about Aruba and the imbalance within its tourism economy. The island generates enormous wealth through tourism, yet much of that wealth flows outward through foreign ownership, luxury developments and short-term rentals, while many local residents remain excluded from long-term prosperity.

The marlin becomes more than a trophy. It represents the island’s resources and the value created from them—and raises the question of who ultimately benefits.

Around it, faces, fish, buildings and tangled lines form a crowded world in which tourism, local life and commerce are inseparable.

The island provides the catch. But who gets to enjoy it?

Bibo den Kaya asks us to look beyond the image of paradise and consider the people who live there every day.