Baroness Carduelis Saracenia Poster

• 10 x 25”
• 13 layer screen print on 100# French Speckletone Madero Beach paper. Hand numbered edition of 90
• Printed at NIGHT SWIM by Sarah Schatz

2 personal favorites & part of the series of work I made for Baroness - Gold & Grey album.

These 2 prints are a memoriam, tribute to my father, (Ma)rinus Nicolaas Jan van Haasteren, who passed away earlier this year.

My father showed me the work of Carel Fabritius at a young age, his goldfinch painting is still hauntingly beautiful. Overtime my father has seen me grown both as a person but as an artist. He never stopped encouraging me, to make a career out of my art. He didn’t always agree with my choices, why wouldn’t I work for certain people/ companies  but in the end he expressed his admiration for me sticking to my principles & taking the long road. He was more than curious about the people I worked with: who is this John Baizley & why do you work with an American screen printer? He insisted on seeing Baroness live & it was very special to watch my friends play their hearts out along his side. He was at every final day of the Fullbleed exhibition at Roadburn, always full of excitement for the next edition.I’m glad he got to meet them all & seeing  him do, what he did best, socializing, being charming & way too Dutch (honest, direct.) It’s a beautiful & more than fitting gesture, to release these pieces through Night Swim Project. My father would have loved this. 

Rust zacht lieve pa, ik mis je. 🖤

Thank you Jodi & Sarah for doing this, much love for you.