Screen print by Richard Smeets titled Beach scene. Perfect condition! Signed and numbered. Smeets makes lyrical half-abstract paintings, which often express a mood or atmosphere. He says that he makes his artworks in three phases: first, experience becomes a memory, then the memory becomes a dream, and finally the dream becomes materialized in paint and colour. Smeets' work can be divided in three periods. "The woman" is central to the work from his first period. The work from the second period was inspired by trips that Smeets made to Malaysia and Indonesia, the birth country of his mother. In the third period the Dutch landscape is subject. Smeets is also fascinated by roses, which among other things led to the publication "About roses".