Abandoned buildings often serve as the inspiration for Staf’s paintings. As an engineer-architect, he likes to start from the built environment, but where architecture strives for sustainability and timelessness, his work depicts the inevitable transience. His large-format paintings capture the beauty of decay with a poetic touch, where interior and exterior blend together naturally.

With a rough, expressive brushstroke, Staf evokes that atmosphere of melancholy and transience. His goal is not the perfect representation of reality, but the capturing of a fleeting moment. Light contrasts and depth draw you, the viewer, into the painting—as if you yourself are briefly part of that bygone world.