When I lived in the US back in the 90s, someone told me, my art was phallic. Maybe because English isn't my mother tongue, I had no clue what this was supposed to mean. OK, I figured it out eventually...

Even though I have a few gay friends, I'm not all that eager to see men's private parts and I have no idea, how anyone can see certain... ahm... things... in my work O:-) I'm the high heel guy after all ;-)

A few years ago I participated in an exhibition in France and the theme was "Mountain". Just painting a pile of rocks appeared a bit boring to me though, and I tried to come up with something a little more... "entertaining". The show took place in a spa town in the Auvergne and therefore adding some volcano made sense to me. But somehow I also wanted to tie my girl into it and I was looking for the perfect rock for a good story. It was Asparagus season and one of these vegetables finally sparked the right Idea...

As always, I first did the pencil drawing on glass

At that time, I still worked a lot with watercolor, so that was the next layer. Quite tricky I must say and eventually one gets to the point, when corrections are next to impossible