Today I hung four ‘blues’ linocuts by Diana Huijts above Y’s drum kit. I bought them over the Christmas holidays, after having them on my wishlist for four years.

Diana Huijts is an artist living and working in our former hometown Enschede. We already have two prints in our living room from Huijts Alpha Tower series. The Alpha Tower is a sky line dominating highrise in Enschede, built in 2008. Huijts made a series of lino’s in 2009 and 2010, akin to the Hokusai series of Mount Fuji, from different perspectives (both geographically and socially) in and around Enschede. I look at them with pleasure every single day.

She made these lino cuts of musicians a few years later, 2015-2016. I took an instant liking to them when I first came across them. May it inspire Y as she practices her drums on our top floor.