Emanations – 2024

Emanations is an ongoing series of textile sculptures that give shape to an inner landscape — thoughts, worries, desires, and fragments of self. Each piece is a quiet self-portrait in motion.

Nocturnal Awakening – 2024

a mixed media triptych that emerged from the quiet intensity of late-night studio hours. Featuring Henri — a recurring presence in my practice — the work shifts with the light and mood of the viewer. Like three doors opening into the night, and perhaps, gently, back again. It is not a portrait, but an experience.ence.

The Girl Who Kept Me Safe – 2024

A raw, intuitive collage series made with Joss paper — a tribute to my younger self, who survived by pretending. Born from one night, loud music, and a photograph I couldn’t ignore. This is my way of honouring her, and finally letting go.

Dualism – 2024

A farewell series, created just before artist Sasha’s (Oleksandr Pinchuk) move to Paris. After years of shared projects and a shared workshop, Dualism marks both the end of a creative collaboration and the start of two separate artistic paths. A meditation on connection, independence, and the beauty of letting go.

Docked in the Dark – 2023

During Rotterdam Art Week, Van Peppen collaborated with Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Pinchuk and singer-songwriter Nastya to create a multidisciplinary showcase inside a maritime simulation dome in Rotterdam. The immersive installation responded to the scale and atmosphere of the space, blending visual art, sound, and performance into a site-specific experience.

Infinity – The End – 2022

A collage series made on Josh paper, inspired by the Trimurti philosophy in Balinese Hinduism. Rich in red, silver, gold and yellow — each work reflects on the spiritual openness of Bali and the cycles of life and death.

Infinity – The End marks the final part of a three-year journey through this philosophy — a series that attempts to connect the material and the metaphysical, and invites reflection on the infinite cycles of life.

I don’t want you to be hopeful – 2021

Born from uncomfortable honesty, this project explores what it means to act — or not — in the face of crisis. Through conversations with young people and portraits layered in gold leaf and paper, I ask: what will we do, now that we know the house is on fire?

My Digital Muse – 2021

During lockdown, I turned to deepfake software to create digital muses — women who don’t exist, yet somehow moved me. Printed on porcelain, they raise the question: is something still art if it’s entirely artificial, but still manages to feel true?

Golden Boy – 2020

A series of intimate portraits of Henri — a refugee turned muse — capturing both fragility and strength. The work honors shared moments and the quiet transformation of pain into something golden.

Lonely – 2020

Collages made on pages of old books during lockdown, inspired by Les Amants. The series reflects our craving for connection and intimacy in a time of isolation — a quiet transformation of fear into tenderness.

Create, protect & Destroy – 2019

A visual journey into the sacred balance of Balinese life.
Create, Protect & Destroy explores the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
A reflection on cultural survival in a world of change.
Tradition, beauty, and impermanence — all in one breath.

Legacy – 2017

A series inspired by flight, freedom, and becoming.
Birds captures the energy of youth — curious, weightless, unguarded.
There’s strength in softness, and beauty in the moment before flight.
A dream of lightness, held just long enough to see it.

Birds – 2017

A series inspired by flight, freedom, and becoming.
Birds captures the energy of youth — curious, weightless, unguarded.
There’s strength in softness, and beauty in the moment before flight.
A dream of lightness, held just long enough to see it.

Move me – 2015

A photographic search for truth beneath the surface.
By encouraging movement, I captured fleeting moments of real presence.
The baby powder reveals every mark of life, without mercy or filter.
Move Me is about being seen — and being moved.

Retroperspective – 2014

Portraits of over eighty individuals, captured in silence and serenity.
A sculptural approach to photography, evoking purity and presence.
Later reassembled into collage — part memory, part rebirth.
A meditation on life, death, and the peace in between.

Controlled Polaroids – 1995

Experimental Polaroids from the early days — scratched, peeled, layered.
Transparent ghosts turned into poetic images.
Flawed on purpose, marked by fingerprints.
Now available as limited edition fine art prints.