"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free."
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
When I started to dive, I reported my dives in a logbook, just like every new diver does. At some moment little drawings appear and eventually the text was replaced by full page pencilsketches. Now a days I still visualize dives that are important to me, but instead of pencildrawings, I make full colour digital work, which is strongly influenced by the style of classic monstermovieposters and (underground) comix.
Twelve years ago I started technical diving with my friends from Technical Diving College in Hilversum. It opened a whole new world of diving and immediately I got ideas to work out.
After a few expositions, I got some commissions and started to use the name DiveArt.
Marcel Thijs