Discrete Probability

This panoramic artwork is a continuation of a series on internal organs. Other artworks in this series include inanimate objects, but this artwork only includes organs. The organs are intentionally connected the wrong way around and this more or less represents the internal conflict we might feel living amongst the chaos of the modern world.

Most people do not look “inside” other people. We are very superficial creatures. We only see outward appearances. But in reality our skin is only one of a handful of human organs. Here I try to represent the features of a person based on a unique arrangement of their internal organs.

I have chosen watercolour as a medium because it allows me to select pure pigments which then display as vibrant colours.

This piece may suit an art collector who might also have been a patient; or someone working in a medical field such as a nurse, doctor or surgeon.

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van den hooven is an emerging Australian abstract cubist artist whose style is instantly recognisable for its quintessential features: bold lines, consistent colour palette and his symbolic logo-like depiction of facial features, bodily organs and other familiar objects.

His compositions are intentionally cluttered and contradictory, reflecting the chaos of modern life through a unique visual language that fuses the internal with the external, the animate with the inanimate, the natural with the technological.

Born into a lineage steeped in creativity, van den hooven’s artistic roots trace back to his grandfather Abraham Leendert van den Hooven, a Dutch sailor-turned-self-taught artist who settled in Australia in the late 1950s. His mother, Margarita Rosa, also pursued fine art, nurturing a household where creativity could flourish.

Coming from a science research background, van den hooven’s own journey into art was reignited after completing diplomas in graphic design (2016) and illustration (2018).

His work often explores themes of consumption, identity, internal conflict using familiar and quintessential objects—facial features, organs, androids, tentacles, surveillance cameras, crustaceans, fish, and more—to challenge viewers’ perceptions of necessity versus excess.

Looking forward, van den hooven is holding his inaugural solo art exhibition at the Clyde Gallery, Bay Pavilions Art+Aquatic centre, Batemans Bay, in August 2025.