Process

Sketch in the head, then paint from far to near.

Most pieces start without a photograph. Yasin holds the scene in his head and roughs it onto a gridded canvas in black, then works from the farthest layer toward the main subject. He paints in the corner of a room in his Voorburg home, mostly at night, with music or a podcast playing.

A small canvas might take a single sitting — or several days, while he works through doubt about a single passage. Larger pieces span months of revisits, sometimes three or four.