I was born in 1970 to an English Mother and a Bolivian Father. Grandson to a Dutchman who had travelled to South America in his 20s and married an indigenous Bolivian land owner. Finding my corporate day job increasingly insubstantial and with limited space for expression I have returned to his first form of expression - the oils. Before graduating in Economics I left college with a poor grade in Sculpture and went on to be rejected three years in a row from the Royal Dutch Art Academy of The Hague. I haves always put it down to having the name Vermeer, not speaking Dutch,...more
