Where to start?
God, how I miss my (flyfishing)friend… His warmth, sense of humour, wisdom, his “Joie de vivre” and, last but not least, his love for (mainly) Italian food and wine.

Fond memories, photos and art is what there is left. And I don’t have to miss his art, as many walls in our house (including my “man cave”) are decorated with his paintings which inspire me when I get up first thing in the morning and when I go to bed. One of his (big) paintings called “Arles” hangs right above our bed. Every morning, when we open the curtains, it literarly lights up and gives our day a special boost. (See picture of the painting in the photo gallery below.)

The homepage of this website is decorated with one of his earlier works about fly fishing the German river Kyll. It’s titled “back again” (1986) and pictures a fly fisherman who returned to his beloved river in springtime, with a pair of buzzards circling in the sky.

These are Ton’s own words about his paintings: “My interest in nature and its landscape, near and far, always inspires me to show the essence of a landscape through paint and canvas.

I also want to ask myself what I actually see and what might be doomed to disappear. The exact rendering is not what interests me, I am interested in the layering that is visible in every landscape. It fascinates me to allow abstraction so that everyone can come up with their own “story”.

June 2025 >>> This tribute is going to be updated / extended soon! (Promise)