I am Werner Zwakhalen, also known as "Nash".

Growing up, my two biggest passions were dancing and drawing. In the beginning of the 80's,
I started B-Boying. I danced for many years, in many places. It was a great time and I met a lot of nice people. We had some magical moments, which still are some of the fondest memories I have.
I've been drawing, for as long as I can remember. When the hiphop culture came into my life, it changed everything. Growing up in a small town called Sittard, there weren't many possibilities to express myself creatively. So when I came into contact with graffiti, it provided a creative outlet.
I was known for my B-Boying in my city and when I started doing graffiti, I gained local recognition fast, because I was the first one in my area who started doing it.

I painted my first graffiti piece in a youth center called "La Chapelle". My first graffit name was "Popping TC". I was an allround dancer and known for my popping, hence the first part of the name. TC was the name of the black dude in the helicopter of Magnum PI. What I didn't realize back then, is that "TC" were his initials! :-) In 1983, I changed my name into 'Zobaps'. This name came from a voodoo guy in an episode of Miami Vice. Later I took on the name "Semo" for a few years.
In 1986 I changed my name to "Hash", because I could tag it like it was a Chinese name. My friend at that time had the name "J. Stone" (Jan Steen) and I liked his tag a lot, especially the letter N.
I took the "N" and I changed "Hash" into "Nash" and never changed it again.

In 1986 I met "June" and we got along very well. We decided to start a crew together called "S.A.K.", short for "Street Art Kings". We painted a lot of pieces together, legal and illegal. In 1987 we had our first exhibition and got a big job from the city to paint a tunnel. This created a lot of publicity and we got many more commercial jobs. A couple of years later, I started a lot of new crews. NCP, STP, SW, Who Crew, 203, and UR, just to name a few.

My present crew is called LoveLetters. The members of this crew are, Does (NL), Tumki (NL), Chas (NL), Puaks (NL), Dater (DE), RUSL (DE), Biser (DE) Ozer (FR), Sean2 (CH), Dare (R.I.P) (CH).
I recently joined my friend Belin's crew "OGT" from Spain. Thanks to graffiti, I had the opportunity to travel around the world, doing something I love. Much love to all the people I met during my trips around the globe.

greetings,

Nash