Tjalf Sparnaay born 1954, Haarlem, Netherlands is a Dutch artist

Tjalf Sparnaay lives and works in Hilversum, Netherlands. He is a self-taught artist, who whose oil paintings are based on everyday objects. He paints everyday items such as a breakfast, crushed coca-cola can, a fried egg, a half eaten sandwich, cheeseburgers and desserts, a bag of chips with mayonnaise, a Dutch raw herring with a little flag, and a bunch of tulips still wrapped in cellophane. Sparnaay takes these items out of the context of their day to day surroundings, enlarging them so the viewer sees their tiniest details. His intention is to give the objects a heart